Speaker 1: Hello, good morning. I hope you enjoyed that little start video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is about TV detective vans. I wonder what's going
Speaker 1: on here right? This actually bugs me to death. It
Speaker 1: took about fake news. You know the fact checkers. While
Speaker 1: they check all the facts, well they let the Mirror
Speaker 1: dot co dot UK come up this headline TV license
Speaker 1: vans catching people across the UK in minutes, TV Licensing
Speaker 1: sends the detective vans out across the UK. Tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of people across the UK have been caught watching
Speaker 1: live or BBC television without the license necessary. The Licensing
Speaker 1: It says it has a range of detection tools at
Speaker 1: a disposal in their vans. It has some aspects of
Speaker 1: the equipment have been developed in such secrecy that engineers
Speaker 1: working on the detection methods don't know how it's or
Speaker 1: been built and put together and how it works, so
Speaker 1: not even they know how the other detection methods work either.
Speaker 1: This gives us the best chance of catching the invaders.
Speaker 1: Detective bands can detect the use of TV receiving equipment,
Speaker 1: especially specifically targeted addresses, within minutes. The organization also has
Speaker 1: a database have thirty one million license and license addresses
Speaker 1: and it's visiting officers. We will have access to this,
Speaker 1: I mean command. They've got a database of who had
Speaker 1: a license and who haven't got one now and what
Speaker 1: happened to the rest of the millions I think about
Speaker 1: fifty add million in the UK. Why don't they have
Speaker 1: any details whether they've got a license or not got
Speaker 1: a license? I don't know anyway, That's interesting, isn't it now?
Speaker 1: What's even more interesting? A freedom of information request to
Speaker 1: the BBC in twenty seventeen. There's two of them. This
Speaker 1: is a mister tank card, he asks. Sorry. They reply
Speaker 1: to his question, which was I have heard from various
Speaker 1: sources that your TV detective bands can actually detect if
Speaker 1: someone's watching the TV. Could you please advise and they
Speaker 1: come up with a standard response. Please note that TV
Speaker 1: licensing is a trade that mark used by companies contracted
Speaker 1: by the BBC to administer the collection of television license
Speaker 1: fees and of the television licensing system, so they run
Speaker 1: by people like Capital Business services. Over the counter services
Speaker 1: are provided by Paypoint in the UK and the Post
Speaker 1: Office in Alaman. Marketing and printing services contracted by Proximity
Speaker 1: London Limited. Media Services This is probably where the propaganda
Speaker 1: starts from. Are contracted to Media Planning Limited trading as
Speaker 1: Havas Media UK. The BBC is a public can file
Speaker 1: in respect of the television license. Firstly, PSB advised that
Speaker 1: the Act gives a general rate of access to all
Speaker 1: types of recorded information or by public affilis when not
Speaker 1: required to create new information. To respond to any requests
Speaker 1: with this query rather than a request for recorded information,
Speaker 1: I can take outside the scope of the Act that
Speaker 1: TV license detective vans do exists and our effective means
Speaker 1: of enforcement. We do publish information about how we enforce
Speaker 1: the license as this is available on TV license and websites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's run by different agencies. This guy is asking
Speaker 1: about you know, where is your detective vans? Now do
Speaker 1: you have a picture and all that. Basically, the BBC
Speaker 1: has found that it does hold information that comes in
Speaker 1: in terms of his requests, but they've concluded that the
Speaker 1: exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act applying, We're not
Speaker 1: able to provide the details of images of TV licensing bands,
Speaker 1: do they exist, where they're located? Because its disclosure would
Speaker 1: lately prejudice the detection, investigation and or prosecution of offenses
Speaker 1: and or collection of the TV license fee. Section thirty
Speaker 1: one of the Freedom of Information Act permits the BBC
Speaker 1: to withhold information whose disclosure would be lately to prejudice
Speaker 1: the prevention or detection of crime, the collection of the
Speaker 1: fee and so and look I just said, so that's
Speaker 1: basically their way out of it. You know, they can't
Speaker 1: give you any information, whether they real or not, although
Speaker 1: we suspect they're not, because it would stop the investigations. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to play another clip at the end. That
Speaker 1: was another TV licensing detector advert. Now IOI add fission
Speaker 1: intelligence overview says no, the high tech program identifying TV
Speaker 1: detector vans are largely a myth or scare tactic. The
Speaker 1: vans do visit addresses suspected of not having a license
Speaker 1: using database information are your computer, probably and sometimes basic
Speaker 1: information and basic equipment, but prosecutions rely on other evidence,
Speaker 1: not the van readings itself. The vans therefore are real vehicles,
Speaker 1: but the capabilities are probably zero's. They mainly act as
Speaker 1: a psychological deterrant, rely on more on database checks and
Speaker 1: non players. Okay, so that's a half in the middle
Speaker 1: of them. They do exist. They don't detect. They're scare
Speaker 1: mongering tactic and the media company that's linked to TV
Speaker 1: license probably works that ways of scam people. Are you
Speaker 1: the van in the background here, so that that was
Speaker 1: in the mirror. This is what really annoys me. It
Speaker 1: really really does the mirror. Yeah, it shouldn't be saying,
Speaker 1: you know their licensing vans, I've got this special equipment on. However,
Speaker 1: what they do sound the art could just come from
Speaker 1: the BBC itself saying that our equipment is all technical.
Speaker 1: But they shouldn't really be allowed to spread false information
Speaker 1: when it's not true. AI, I mean you must have
Speaker 1: got their sources from somewhere. Says it doesn't actually exist
Speaker 1: the equipment, but the bands do. The mirror says the
Speaker 1: equipment exists, so does a BBC And in Birmingham the
Speaker 1: warning has been issued as a TV lescense fee can
Speaker 1: rise again with house eizes risking a thousand pound fine
Speaker 1: for not paying. Householders have been warned in Birmingham area
Speaker 1: over detective bands, t relations and company cautions as a
Speaker 1: range of detection tools. It's disposable, yes, a small database.
Speaker 1: The company said. Some aspects of the have developed in
Speaker 1: such a secrecy, et cetera, et cetera. That's the same
Speaker 1: old story the old probably had. Would this be anything
Speaker 1: to do with anything? Telegraph dot co dot UK two
Speaker 1: months ago BBC loses one billion as more viewous canceled
Speaker 1: TV license corporation makes two million enforcement visits as cost
Speaker 1: of evasion adds up. So yeah, the newspaper there, So
Speaker 1: it's costing all that money because people are canceling, So
Speaker 1: they've got to make some proper candap, haven't they too,
Speaker 1: to counteract that. What do you think anyway? Do you
Speaker 1: have a TV license? Do you think they should go
Speaker 1: streaming there and let leave people alone? Lake shore and
Speaker 1: comment or put any links that are helpful to people
Speaker 1: in the comment section. Lake Sharon comment like I said,
Speaker 1: and have a great day. It's been andy. Five minute
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