Shuhei later filled a post of shoshi torishirabe yaku (person in charge of investigation of officers), and he was recruited as a Mimawarigumi-nami (a status which is comparable to Mimawarigumi; the shogunate's security squad placed in Kyoto) receiving an annual stipend of 40 bags of rice at the time of recruitment of Shinsengumi members as shogun's retainers in 1866.
のち、諸士取調役を務め、慶応3年（1866年）の幕臣取り立て時には、見廻組並（40俵）を拝命している。