Vincent Medley

Law Enforcement Trainer and Maddie’s® Director of Human Animal Support Services

Vincent Medley is a law enforcement trainer with the HSUS’s Law Enforcement Training Center and Maddie’s® Director of Human Animal Support Services. He has 22 years’ experience in animal law enforcement and protection. Vincent began as an animal control officer in the City of Dallas (TX) and worked his way up to hold executive and leadership positions in the cities of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio Texas and Philadelphia, Pa., where he was the Director of the Animal Care and Control Team of Philadelphia and a founding member of the Philadelphia No Kill Coalition. In his career, Vincent has established successful investigation programs and has investigated and supervised the investigation of thousands of animal crimes in partnership with local, state and federal authorities. He has employed his experience to testify in support of local and state legislation nationwide, as well as training animal welfare and law enforcement professionals throughout the country. He has served tribal, rural and urban communities, and in each one, he collaborated with local groups to implement innovative programs to support the people and pets who lived there (including partnerships with the HSUS’s Pets for Life team). Vincent holds several state and national animal control officer and animal cruelty investigations certifications, and held a federal ACO commission when he enforced animal laws on the Pueblo of Isleta Indian Reservation.