Former national police spokesman Lt. Gen. Dionardo Bernardo Carlos was designated as the number four man of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a major revamp that was triggered by the retirement of Gen. Debold Sinas.
Carlos assumed the position of the Chief Directorial Staff, which is equivalent to the position of Chief Operations Officer in private companies.
A member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1988, Carlos got the position as he was the first in line in order of seniority in the PNP.
He served as a PNP spokesman in 2017 before he was named as the director of the Aviation Security Group. He also served as the director of the Directorate for Information and Communications Technology (DICTM) and the Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR) before he was designated as the director of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations- Visayas where he earned his third star.
Carlos is a known skydiver and has participated in various skydiving demonstrations in the past.
With Lt. Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar taking the leadership of the PNP, his mistah, Lt. Gen. Joselito Vera Perez became the number two man of the PNP as Deputy Chief for Administration while another member of the PMA Class 1987, Lt. Gen. Israel Ephraim Dickson is now the Deputy Chief for Operations of the PNP.