Dear Sir or Madam,

Could you let me know the answers to the following four questions:

1. The number of prosecutions for not having a TV license, that
have taken place in the last year, where evidence from a "detector
van" or "handheld detector" was used and presented in the court.

2. Do the "detector vans" actually exist?

3. How many "detector vans" do TV Licensing use?

4. Do "detector vans" and "handheld detectors" detect only
televisions or are they capable of detecting other equipment?

Yours faithfully,

Bruce Bolt

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