TV licence and vehicles that can produce evidence of illegally watching live TV.
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Has "Tv licence"vehicle detector evidence been produced in a court of law in the uk to secure a prosecution?
Yours faithfully,
Mathew Haines
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Peter Jones left an annotation ()
No. It never has, as first revealed on the TV Licensing Blog back in April 2011: https://tv-licensing.blogspot.com/2011/0...
They use detection as a method of obtaining search warrants. It is evidence uncovered during the search that is then used in any prosecution. The BBC will never use detection as the basis of a prosecution, because doing so would render that evidence (or rather lack thereof) of being open to closer scrutiny. The BBC knows that if that happened the illusion of effective detection would be shattered for ever.