Gatdula may dissolve NBi units with unnecessary functions

By Angelie Escandor

National Bureau of investigation (NBI) Director Magtanggol Gatdula said on thursday he would level the playing field in the bureau with his move to dissolve certain units with redundant functions and reassign some of the affected personnel as regional and assistant regional directors in 17 regional of- fices across the nation.

The new NBi chief said there are some regional of- fices at present which are run only by assistant regional directors (aRDs) or head agents.

“So we have to assign regional directors to the 17 regions. There should be 17 regional directors and 17 ARDs,” he said.

In deploying RDs and aRDs to the regions, Gatdula said he want to level the playing field of the agents.

“It is unfair to those who have been working hard. You need to go through this, managing a region, while being promoted,” he added.

Gatdula also guarantees improved services in the NBI regional offices.

Earlier, Gatdula said he was studying the possibility of dissolving some of the NBi units due to redundancy of functions. He noted that some units are performing the same functions which amount to duplication of work.

However, Gatdula assured that the NBI’s bigger units or divisions functioning well will be retained.

He also said the NBI will create other units which are needed, such as a death investigation division, to handle cases involving the killing of members of the media and militant groups.