The tourist, identified as Denison Mendes, promised to speak of the good deed of the Thai police once he and his girlfriend returned to Spain.
The policewoman recounted that Mendes thanked her station personnel with tears in his eyes when he came to the station on Sept 28 after returning from Phuket to pick up his bag with a camera, two lenses and a hard drive. “Spanish people must know that not only Don Mueang police, but all Thai police, are the best cops in the world. Tourists who come to Thailand must know that they will be safe. You are the best cops in the world,” Phattharasaya quoted Mendes as saying.On Sept 7, Mendes and his girlfriend came to Don Mueang Police Station at 9.30am to file a complaint that he had forgotten his camera bag in a red-and-pink taxi at around 5.45am that morning. He did not know the licence plate number of the taxi.
Mendes said he and his girlfriend got out of the taxi at 6.15am at a bus stop in front of the airport. After the taxi drove off, Mendes realised that he had forgotten his camera bag with a Nikon camera, two lenses and a hard drive in the boot of the vehicle.