Chief William P. McManus became the Chief of Police
of the San Antonio Police Department on April 17, 2006, having
previously served as Chief of Police of the Minneapolis Police
Department from February 2004 through April 2006, and
Chief of Police of the Dayton, Ohio, Police Department
from November 2001 through February 2004.
Chief McManus started his law enforcement career in 1975, when
he joined the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, where
he served in a variety of street and investigative assignments, and
rose through the ranks of Sergeant, Lieutenant, and
Captain. In 1998, McManus was promoted to Commander of the
First District, which includes Capitol Hill and areas west
of the White House, and later that year he was promoted to the
position of Assistant Chief of the Metropolitan Police
Department, a position he held until 2001, when he retired from
the Metropolitan PD and became
Chief of the Dayton PD.
Chief McManus is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute and
National Academy, and the Senior Management Institute for Police at
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He holds
a Bachelor's Degree from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and
a Master's Degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, MD.
Chief McManus is married and has three children.
