Manuel Flores, Field Operations Supervisor, San Antonio Animal Care Services
Manuel Flores is currently employed with the City of San Antonio’s Animal Care Services and has been with ACS since June 2002. His animal career began as an animal care attendant and and was later promoted to Animal Care Officer in 2006. He advanced into multiple investigative assignments such as Animal Bite Investigator and Dangerous Dog Investigator.
In 2008, he was promoted to an Animal Cruelty Investigator and contributed dearly to the newly formulated team; by taking part in the building and structure of cruelty investigations from the ground up. During this time period he was directly involved in several thousand animal cruelty investigations in cooperation with numerous Law Enforcement agencies. Manuel Flores has investigated multiple high profile cases; of those cases “Rosie the Pit Bull” and “Rusty the Miracle Dog” were investigated with a heavy heart.
In November of 2016 he advanced to Field Operations Supervisor and is currently overseeing all the investigative units for ACS Field Operations. He is a Certified Animal Cruelty Investigator through the University of Missouri- Columbia’s Law Enforcement Training Institute, a Certified Animal Control Officer in the State of Texas, and holds several other specialized certifications.