Bramshill is currently used as the UK Police Staff College.
He joined An Garda Síochána in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Police Management and a Diploma in Management and Industrial Relations, and has also studied policing methods overseas at both the FBI Academy, Quantico, USA and at the Police College, Bramshill, England.
He was the first RUC officer to attend the advanced policing course at the British police training college in Bramshill in England, before returning to Northern Ireland and a promotion in Belfast.
The Police Staff College, Bramshill, Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, England, is the principal police staff training establishment in England and Wales.
He attended the police college in Ikeja, and was selected for further training in the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England in 1966 and the International Police Academy, Washington DC in 1970.
A painting by Joseph Nash, now in the National Fencing Museum, depicts 17th-century rapier practice at Bramshill House, with a number of upper-class men, women and children as spectators.