Southwest Showcase 2019

Chief Brian Manley
Chief of Police
Austin Police Department


Brian Manley joined the Austin Police Department in 1990 and was named Chief of Police in June 2018. A native of Austin, he leads a department of 2,638 law enforcement and support personnel, with an annual budget of $422 million. He led a delegation of APD officers during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC, commanded a group of Special Response Team officers in a deployment to Houston in the wake of Hurricane Ike, and attended the Senior Counter-terrorism Officials Seminar in Israel. A graduate of U.T., Chief Manley earned a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Ethics from St. Edwards University in 2004 and went on to serve as an adjunct professor there. He is a graduate of the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police and the Major Cities Chiefs Association Police Executive Leadership Institute.

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