PNP Chief Director-General Avelino I. Razon, who leads the regular Monday Flag rites at Camp Crame, handed San Diego his trophy as the undisputed "Top Gun of PNP Generals."

San Diego had collected the highest aggregate points overall in the five-stage, three-gun events, besting other active and top-ranking officers of the PNP organization who had taken part in this most recent and most prestigious five-stage, three-gun events using long firearms.

The competition was sponsored by the Trust Trade, local distributor of police and military equipment.

Razon, for his part, had also shown good form after he emerged first runner-up in the Semi-Auto Shot Gun Match.

Chief Supt. Pedro Tango, Eastern Police Office director, and Chief Supt. Luisito Palmera, regional director of MIMAROPA, were first and second runners-up, respectively.

Deputy Director-General Jesus Versosa was first runner-up in rifle.

A member of the PMA Class of 1977, San Diego owns a fluent Visayan tongue, being a native of Ozamis City, also the birthplace of members of the Visayan-speaking Parojinog group, popularly known as the Kuratong Baleleng gang that probably had been the most dreaded, although most popular syndicate in Philippine crime history.

Ozamis is also known for being a stronghold of gun owners in Northern Mindanao.

"Many Ozamis residents are good gun handlers, and they could be described as a Pinoy version of the cowboys of the west in America.

"If there is one item that a resident would own, or a household would have in Ozamis, it is a gun," San Diego usually tells friends at gun club gatherings and during shooting competitions.

His training partner, SPO1 Norman Tubio, also a native of Ozamis City, had also ruled several shooting competitions in the country.

The Visayan-speaking police general is also known for being a builder-developer of PNP shooting ranges, having completed in 2003 the construction of the Camp Macabulos, Tarlac City Firing Range during his tour of duty as police provincial director.

He also built in 2005 the beachside, 18-bay Pangasinan PPO Shooting Range, presently the biggest PNP-run firing range in the country today.

He gifts good, responsible friends with guns. In Tarlac he gave an M-16 to a Chinese friend, Ric Sy, who was kidnapped and held captive for four months by a notorious kidnap syndicate.

Another friend he gifted with a gun was Pangasinan Gov. Victor Agbayani, for whom he had customized an M-14 rifle.