IT WAS a nice write-up about the three policemen who are retiring (Oxford Mail, July 24).

I think I would like to have served with them.

I must say though, that I never heard a colleague say: ‘Ello, ello’ and I used to walk my beat. I don’t know how you ‘pound’ it.

Good luck to the lads.

DAVID YOUD, Barlow Close, Wheatley