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So, who gets employed to do the BBC’s dirty work for them? Under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract, Capita Business Services place job advertisements such as the one above. Here we have yet another product of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. The job advertisement gives the (non-) job title as “Sales Officers”. We at TV Licensing™ Watch are somewhat baffled by the contradiction in terms between “Sales” and “Officers”.

The dictionary definition of “sales”: selling activity. The dictionary definition of “officer”: a person who holds a public office. Since the people recruited under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract by Capita Business Services are employees of a private business they cannot be persons who hold public office. The BBC themselves are a private business so the businesses retained under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract can have no public office. Persons in public office cannot undertake “sales” or selling activity for to do so would be a conflict of interest. So, there it is. Under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract the people who go from door to door visiting unlicensed addresses are not holders of public office and are therefore not “officers” but “sales persons”.

The (non-) job advertisement states as much. Careful reading reveals that those employed by Capita Business Services under the BBC TV Licensing™ contract have a sales commission element to their remuneration, "uncapped commission" is how it is put. Furthermore, they have sales targets to achieve which has been revealed in press articles about court appearances of corrupt employees of Capital Business Services. It leads to all sorts of abuses which will be dealt with in another blogpost.

The advertisement reveals much more about the BBC TV Licensing™ contract at first reading than people would initially suppose. Contained within the terms, conditions and clauses of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract is the exhortation that Capita Business Services “maximise BBC television licence revenue” and to “make the BBC television licence ‘acceptable’" to those who think the BBC television licence is unacceptable. The BBC TV Licensing™ contract is truly a most odious document. It is the basis of one of the nastiest applications of database based “enforcement” in existence and it should have no place in a democracy. The United Kingdom purports to be a democracy and consequently the BBC television licence regime and the entire apparatus of deceitful harassment arising from the BBC TV Licensing™ contract should be abolished. The BBC made a subscription service.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.

For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita Business Services TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.