{"id":874375,"date":"2026-06-17T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874375\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:24:16","slug":"city-of-san-antonio-starts-search-for-next-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874375\/","title":{"rendered":"City of San Antonio starts search for next police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William McManus has served as police chief since 2006; briefly stepped away in 2015<\/p>\n<p>No description found<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The City of San Antonio began the search for its search for its next police chief on Monday by opening a job post to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">After almost 20 years leading the department, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2026\/01\/16\/sapd-chief-william-mcmanus-to-step-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police Chief William McManus<\/a> announced in January his plan to retire in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The 74-year-old chief will continue to work in his role with the San Antonio Police Department until the end of September, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/files\/assets\/main\/v\/1\/hr\/documents\/chief-of-police.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/files\/assets\/main\/v\/1\/hr\/documents\/chief-of-police.pdf\">The police chief job<\/a> is scheduled to close in a month, on July 15, the listing said.<\/p>\n<p>Who can apply?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Chief candidates must have 10 years of professional experience in municipal police work, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/files\/assets\/main\/v\/1\/hr\/documents\/chief-of-police.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">job brochure<\/a>. Applicants must have at least five years of command-level, administrative or supervisory experience with a municipal, county, state or comparable public safety organization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A bachelor\u2019s degree is required and fluency in Spanish is preferred, the application stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">More information regarding the job application can be read on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/Directory\/Initiatives\/Join-Our-Team\/Career-Opportunities\/Executive-Opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">city\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamuel Rocha IV headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/SRBYREIS6TRV7FEISOBV\/\" title=\"View Samuel Rocha IV&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Rocha IV<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Samuel Rocha joined KSAT as a Newsroom Trainee in the spring of 2026. He is a San Antonio native and a graduate of San Antonio College and Texas A&amp;M University-San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William McManus has served as police chief since 2006; briefly stepped away in 2015 No description found SAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,45896],"class_list":["post-874375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sapd","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-william-mcmanus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116767560082284417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}