'Police failed to do their duty in body parts case'

Notified by DHL of delivery registration that stated the cargo was toys being sent to Las Vegas addresses, the Bang Phongphang police could have immediately charged Ryan Edward McPherson and Daniel Jamon Tanner with filing false information, after they admitted to it during brief questioning.
Dej-udom said both Americans, who left for Cambodia soon after being released, were also in criminal violation of customs regulations that bar postal delivery of human parts and organs. He said the police officers failed to nail them for this offence. They also failed to inspect delivery registration notes that both the accused had signed, making the crime complete and immediately chargeable.
He said law enforcement should be applied equally to all offenders committing crimes in Thailand. However, police in this case appeared to be lenient with both Americans.
Meanwhile, police who interviewed the custodians and staff at Siriraj Hospital, whose museum owned the five stolen human parts, said none of them were involved in the loss of the items.
A senior interrogator, Pol Maj-General Sombat Milinthajinda, said surveillance-camera footage handed over to the police by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, only showed the two men entering and leaving the museum. The footage did not reveal them hiding anything inside their outfits on the way out.
He said security measures had been put in place after the loss of bodies of twin infants from the museum in 2003, but these involved only registration of visitors and installation of security cameras, while visitors could roam freely once they got inside.