Omission of a Relative Pronoun

Below is my self-explanatory e-mail of December 17, 2007 to the Editor of The Star's Mind Our English, from whom I have yet to receive a reply:-

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I refer to the sentence appearing in OVERVIEW of THE STAR of today under the headline "Porn ring smashed" reading, "A former police officer and two teachers are among six men police say are implicated in an Australian child porn ring." As "men" is already the object of the preposition "among", the relative pronoun "who" is necessary to link the rest of the sentence, while "police say" is just a parenthetical clause which does not have a grammatical function and which can be separated by commas or brackets. The sentence should have been : "A former police officer and two teachers are among six men who police say are implicated in an Australian child porn ring." Regards, Kengt, Penang
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