Manila, Feb. 4 -- A police officer wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was arrested in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, on Monday afternoon.

Col. Eleuterio Ricardo Jr., acting Maguindanao del Norte police provincial director, lauded the successful and peaceful arrest of Police Officer 1 Datunot Kadir, 48.

"Police authorities were alerted of his whereabouts following a tip from a concerned citizen and an appeal from his relatives for his peaceful surrender," Ricardo said in a statement Tuesday.

Kadir did not resist when law enforcement officers presented him with an arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 221 in Quezon City. He was apprehended at a relative's house in Barangay Making, Parang to...