The untouchables, an elite band of Australian Federal Police no better than "gangsters with police badges".
The untouchables, an elite band of Australian Federal Police, some of whom insiders say were no better than "gangsters with police badges". Their headquarters were Redfern's landmark TNT twin towers, where extramarital conquests and drunken "happy hour" parties were common. It was the 1980s and, as one former officer of the 35-strong AFP Sydney drug investigation unit recalls, it was like "living inside a grubby episode of Miami Vice ". Memories of the heady days of the twin tower crew have been revived because of the charges laid against one of the squad's alumni, senior NSW Crime Commission investigator Mark Standen. Following his arrest on drug charges this month,. Michael Anthony Wallace - convicted of stealing $20 million worth of seized heroin in 1990 and then of murdering girlfriend Zoe Zou and dumping her body in the Blue Mountains in 2006 - was one. Another was Allan Gregory McLean, sentenced to 16 years' jail for helping import millio...