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Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| I've said this before - detector vans are not a myth - they do exist! I've seen a whole load of them in one place. |
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Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-09-2013 18:38 Post subject: |
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| Doesn't mean there's anything in them though. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 28-09-2013 18:54 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | Doesn't mean there's anything in them though. |
True. |
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| jimv1 Great Old One Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Total posts: 2734 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 05-10-2013 10:57 Post subject: |
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The Daily Mail confirms what we already know.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445153/Are-TV-detector-vans-just-cunning-trick-For-decades-claimed-trap-licence-cheats-In-fact-theyve-led-single-prosecution.html
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This week, more than 60 years after TV detector vans were first unveiled, I managed to establish the truth behind the use of these controversial surveillance vehicles.
The key to the mystery lay not with the BBC, but in the archives of the Post Office Vehicle Club (POVC), an organisation of 200 enthusiasts devoted to cars, vans and lorries owned by the postal service.
Christopher Hogan, editor of the club’s newsletter, explained that, until 2002, the Royal Mail was in charge of TV licence collection and enforcement.
And, he told me: ‘We know details about every vehicle it used, including their serial number, going back to 1906.’
The club therefore has records of every single TV detector van that was in operation between 1952, when they were first rolled-out, to 2002, when the Royal Mail lost the contract for licence enforcement.
These confirm some vehicles existed — but there have never been more than 20 or so at any one time.
This appears to confirm suspicions that detector vans always were — and almost certainly still are — largely a propaganda tool.
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Other recent correspondents to newspapers have suggested many vans carried no equipment at all.
Since 2002, when the Royal Mail stopped running vans, analogue TVs have been replaced by digital ones, so old detection equipment would be obsolete.
Meanwhile, hostility to the licence fee has grown in tandem with the explosion in Freeview and satellite channels, which means people spend less time watching the BBC.
In a bid to persuade them to pay up, the Corporation claims today’s enforcement officers have hand-held detectors that can pinpoint TVs ‘within 20 seconds’.
But they refuse to explain how these devices work or how many are in use.
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