After returning to Italy, on 23 February 1943 he was appointed deputy general commander of the Carabinieri, and from 22 July he briefly held the prefecture of Foggia. He remained in territory controlled by the royalist government after the Armistice of Cassibile of September 1943, and on 19 December of the same year the head of government, Marshal of Italy Pietro Badoglio, appointed him Commander-General of the Carabinieri (with headquarters in Bari), a post he held until July 20, 1944, when he was made Prefect regent of the newly liberated province of Ancona and replaced by General Taddeo Orlando as Commander-General of the Carabinieri. While he was prefect of Ancona, the High Commissioner for Sanctions Against Fascism referred him to the Epuration Commission, which however declared nonsuit. On April 29, 1945, he was discharged from the Army.
