A LONG-SERVING police officer, who has been the beat officer for Bramley, Silchester and the surrounding area since 1999, is set to retire.

PC Mandy Jewell joined Hampshire Constabulary in January 1984 in Havant, moving to Basingstoke in 1989 and to Tadley in 1998 before taking on responsibility for Bramley and the surrounding area in the following year.