LEGAZPI CITY: A city police director and three other municipal police chiefs were ordered sacked in the Bicol region, one of them was ordered dismissed from the service by no less than by the Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Nicanor Bartolome.

The police report said that all the four sacked police chiefs were assigned in Albay province.

Bicol police director Chief Supt. Jose Arne de los Santos said that Tabaco City police chief Col. Nilo Berdin was ordered dismissed from the service by the PNP chief Nicanor Bartolome following the officer alleged involvement in the missing 5,500 pieces of M-16 ammunitions under his custodial watch when he was chief of the Autonomous Region Muslims of Mindanao Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.

The report said that the missing pieces of ammunitions were vital evidence in the Ampatuan massacre of 58 people three years ago. Berdin said that he filed a motion for reconsideration saying that he will exhaust all legal remedies to prove his innocence.

According to Berdin, he had filed criminal and administrative cases against his three personnel, a superintendent, a chief inspector and a police officer for their connivance in the missing ammunitions until he was reassigned in Bicol.

The other three sacked police chiefs are chief inspector Lorenzo Trajano of Daraga town, who was suspended for 30 days following an administrative complaint against him; chief inspector Robert Bellen of Oas town, who was relieved following series of complaints, and chief inspector Robert Capuz of Malinao town, who was perceived having so much closeness with the incumbent mayor tagged as a suspect in the murder last month of mayoral aspirant Engr. Nelson Morales, the city engineer of Makati and United Nationalist Alliance provincial coordinator.