Investigators are looking into whether an LAPD desk officer turned away several day laborers who reported slashing suspect Sam Haskell IV paid them $500 to dispose of bags of body parts.

Chief Michel Moore said the force has launched a probe into reports that cops dismissed one of the day laborers, who was allegedly hired by Haskell to dispose of his wife and in-laws’ remains from his Tarzana home on Nov. 7, telling them the 50-pound bags contained rocks.

The suspicious men stopped their truck a block away from his home and discovered they were actually full of body parts, including a belly button that Haskell — the son of a prominent Hollywood executive — allegedly then told them were Halloween props, according to an interview with KNBC.

“When we picked up the bags, we could tell they weren’t rocks,” one of them said in Spanish Friday, adding that contents felt contents felt “soft and soggy.”

They then drove to a state Highway Patrol office which directed them to a Topanga-area LAPD station to report their gruesome findings, leaving Haskell to be caught on camera disposing of the bags himself.

An officer at the front desk didn’t speak Spanish and told the men to call 911 instead of taking their report, LAPD sources told The Los Angeles Times Tuesday.

“They didn’t have those bags with them, [which] were back at the individual’s home or location where they had been asked to do this service, and they believed that the bags, as I understand it, contained potentially human remains,” Moore said during a news conference.

“My concern is that very act right there, of having them go outside and call 911 versus summoning a unit via other available channels and ensuring that the people remain there with their cooperation,” Moore continued.

“The desk officer has at his or her disposal the watch commander on scene, so the supervisor there, they have radio communications that they can summon, communications that issue or dispatch units,” he reportedly said, adding he couldn’t think of any excuse for the desk officer to have not taking the report.

A squad was eventually dispatched to look for the bags but came up empty-handed, according to the report. The dismembered torso, believed to have belonged to his wife Mei Haskell, turned up in a dumpster miles away the next day, and cops then made the connection.

Haskell, 35, was charged last week with murdering his wife, 37 and her parents Yanxiang Wang, 64, and Gaoshan Li, 72.

The remains of Wang and Li, Chinese nationals that lived with the couple and their three grandchildren, had not been found, but prosecutors said they had evidence that they were also slain in the Haskell home.

“We have not found them yet,” Moore reportedly said. “Our search efforts continued today, but no luck. We are confident we are searching all the places we believe [Haskell] may have gone in the days leading up to his arrest.”

The remains of Wang and Li, Chinese nationals that lived with the couple and their three grandchildren, had not been found, but prosecutors said they had evidence that they were also slain in the Haskell home.

Haskell has pleaded not guilty to three special circumstances murder counts and is being held without bail.

Moore claimed the apparent ineptitude of the desk officer under investigation harkened back to the January police killing of Takar Smith, who was shot by cops in his kitchen when he wouldn’t drop a knife, officials said.

Hours earlier, Smith’s wife had walked into an LAPD police station to report his aggressive behavior and was told to return home and call 911, according to Moore.

That incident was also reportedly under investigation.

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