Photo: AFP But on the same day that they released the landmark report, police told an expert panel - which had earlier warned them against the road policing algorithm - that they have now dumped it. The algorithm for use in roadside stops would have helped officers determine how to deal with a motorist. "The panel were very concerned about that one," panel chairperson Professor Colin Gavaghan, the New Zealand Law Foundation chair in law and emerging technologies, told RNZ. Its predictive policing powers could bring historic biases and inject them into future police decisions, he said. "I've been told by the police [today] that it's not going any further."