Police Staff College, Bramshill

The need for a training college for the police was pushed heavily by Sir Frank Newsam, who was the second most senior Home Office civil servant in the immediate post-war years.

Sir Harold Scott, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in the late 1940s, also called for the establishment for such a college and it was established in June 1948[2] as the National Police College (taking its present name in 1979).

The National Police Library was also established in 1948 and is still in existence, located in Ryton-on-Dunsmore.

The main building at Bramshill is a Grade 1 listed Jacobean mansion.

On 1 April 2007, Bramshill became part of the National Policing Improvement Agency, which replaced Centrex.