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NSW Crime Commission cop on drugs charge

AM - Tuesday, 3 June , 2008  08:00:00

Reporter: Michael Edwards

TONY EASTLEY: One of Australia's top police investigators, who works with the New South Wales Crime Commission, has been arrested and charged by federal police over an alleged drug conspiracy charge.51-year-old Mark Standen is expected to appear in court today along with another man arrested in Sydney yesterday.Standen is accused of alleged involvement with an international syndicate to produce large amounts of the drug 'ice'.It's one of the most serious allegations of criminal corruption levelled at a senior policeman.As a senior officer with the commission, Mark Standen was a key player in an elite crime fighting agency - its job, to bust drug traffickers.Michael Edwards has this report.MICHAEL EDWARDS: Within the Australian Law enforcement community - the New South Wales Crime Commission is regarded as an elite unit and 51-year-old Mark Standen is viewed as one of it best criminal investigators.Among his achievements are spearheading the Crime Commission's investigation into a cocaine smuggling ring involving Sydney drug lord Michael Hurley. But yesterday it must have seemed as though his world had turned upside-down when the Australian Federal Police raided the Crime Commission's offices in Sydney.AFP officers shut off computers and locked the building down - they then arrested Mark Standen for his alleged involvement in a major chemical importation plot.

Veteran ABC Four Corners journalist, Chris Masters, says Mark Standen has a reputation as a fierce investigator.CHRIS MASTERS: Even though this is not somebody who is well known across Australia, within policing circles he is very well known.MICHAEL EDWARDS: Mark Standen's career began 30 years ago policing Sydney's docks.He then joined the Australian Federal Police before being recruited by the New South Wales Crime Commission a decade ago.Chris Masters says Mark Standen's arrest has sent shock waves through the highest echelons of Australian policing.CHRIS MASTERS: This is a senior police officer who was seen to be extremely effective. The NSW Crime Commission are pretty much the elite crime fighting agency in New South Wales and one I have to say, I know it is controversial but one that I have had a lot of respect for over the last decade or so. They do a lot.

MICHAEL EDWARDS: Last night, the AFP charged Mark Standen and a 45-year-old man with offences related to an alleged conspiracy to import a border controlled precursor chemical for the drug 'ice'.Both are set to appear Sydney's Central Local Court this morning.The AFP has also confirmed it raided properties in the Sydney suburbs of Campbelltown, Alexandria, Blacktown and St Helen's Park as well as properties on the New South Wales south and central coasts.It's alleged Mr Standen was working with a criminal syndicate based in the Netherlands and with links to Asia.Mark Standen's arrest is likely to have wider ramifications for the New South Wales Crime Commission.

The Commission has special investigative powers which include the right to compel witnesses to testify and the ability to conduct covert surveillance operations. Phillip Boulten SC is President of the Criminal Defence Lawyer's Association.He says there is growing concern among lawyers that the Commission is overstepping its mark.Mr Boulten says it's about time the commission was held to account.PHILLIP BOULTEN: I am suggesting either that there be a Royal Commission into the operation of the New South Wales Crime Commission or that a judicial officer be given full power to review its operations so as to report back to the Parliament of New South Wales about whether or not the Crime Commission is indeed fulfilling its charter.TONY EASTLEY: The President of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association, Phillip Boulten ending Michael Edwards' report.

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