Applying for a search warrant... what do they need?

[TreeHuggery]

aye... not had a telly since 2002, but have had loads of threatening letters, which I've been ignoring since around 2005*. As far as I'm aware, they've opened around seven investigations on my property, yet no one's knocked on the door, and they still call me 'the occupier' (amazing powers of investigation that!)

so if they do turn up with a warrant, I'd like to be able to ask on what grounds it's been issued. I know that i don't watch or record live telly, and haven't used the iPlayer since July (when a licence wasn't required) ...so would they have any grounds to enter and search my property without any evidence that i've broken the law?

*I used to jump through their hoops, fill in the form, post it back, tell them online and by telephone, only to be ignored and the threatening letters have started again within months.. hence me ignoring them.

I'm expecting the letters to start here again... not had tv for similar amount of time...used to get forms to fill in every month....they slowed down after I had a Basil Fawlty style almighty strop at them...but expecting to get them to reappear with vigour now....they're welcome to come in, but they can keep their hands off my computer...and I cant promise that the dog might take a dislike to their feet; she does that sometimes

 

[steve50]

I'm expecting the letters to start here again... not had tv for similar amount of time...used to get forms to fill in every month....they slowed down after I had a Basil Fawlty style almighty strop at them...but expecting to get them to reappear with vigour now....they're welcome to come in, but they can keep their hands off my computer...and I cant promise that the dog might take a dislike to their feet; she does that sometimes

Stop them coming to your door, http://tv-licensing.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/withdrawing-implied-rights-of-access.html

 

[mybike]

CRT screens emit a radio frequency, just put an AM receiver (transistor radio) near one and you'll hear it as 'interference'.

Originally it was a signal generated by the receiving circuits of the TV. Radio receivers mix the incoming radio signal with this signal to produce an intermediate signal to process. The term used was 'superhetrodyne'. It was this generated signal that was detected. Modern receivers tend to do a lot of the work in chips and with software so the signal generated may not be as strong or as standardised.

 

[raleighnut]

Originally it was a signal generated by the receiving circuits of the TV. Radio receivers mix the incoming radio signal with this signal to produce an intermediate signal to process. The term used was 'superhetrodyne'. It was this generated signal that was detected. Modern receivers tend to do a lot of the work in chips and with software so the signal generated may not be as strong or as standardised.

Aah so that's where it came from in older TV sets, I knew they 'kicked out' a RF signal when they were on.

 

[bruce1530]

What signal is your TV sending out for them to detect?

Images that they can see through the window, and audio that they can hear at the door. It's not a particularly high-tech answer....

 

[RoubaixCube]

If its the Mossad thats coming after you, for crimes against the state then they dont need no warrant. Just a chopper, a few ropes to rappel down and some C4 to blow a hole through your roof and snatch you up quicker then you can say "British Bake Off"

 

[mybike]

Images that they can see through the window, and audio that they can hear at the door. It's not a particularly high-tech answer....

I tend to top up my walking late at night and it's amazing how many people have very large TVs hanging on the wall in full view of passers by.

 

[Andrew_P]

This fighting for for your rights seem like facking hard work to me.

 

[TreeHuggery]

They truly are bombastic, prior to not having a tv,I had a black and white tv (and of course b&w licence) they were always questioning me about that too....
After a while I needed a video recorder as I was studying with open uni - because a video recorder is "capable" of recording in colour, they informed me I needed a colour licence....
Out of sheer stubbornness - and a refusal to give them my hard earned dosh - and at probably more expense than a colour licence...I got the video recorder converted to recording in black and white, and the associated paperwork to legally accompany it.
I truly don't understand the "warmth" that the beeb appears to invoke in some people, they're a money making machine, just like te rest

 

[Drago]

Those eejuts in the Iranian Embassy... bet they wish they'd bought a TV licence!

 

[classic33]

Images that they can see through the window, and audio that they can hear at the door. It's not a particularly high-tech answer....

And to tell them that they need a detector van? Which when seen, the only time, there's a power failure.

 

[classic33]

Those eejuts in the Iranian Embassy... bet they wish they'd bought a TV licence!

Takes True Grit does that.

 

[John the Monkey]

This fighting for for your rights seem like facking hard work to me.

Freedom isn't free, my friend.

 

[classic33]

Freedom isn't free, my friend.

Reminds me of someone on here, that face.

 

[classic33]

Those eejuts in the Iranian Embassy... bet they wish they'd bought a TV licence!

Takes True Grit does that.

Just started to ride down the bank, when they cut to it. Never even went to it, picking up where they'd left off.