I wonder if their warrants, orders or whatever they need to gain entry allows the use of a film crew? I sure as shit wouldn’t let someone film this happen to me inside my own home for broadcasting.
It’s an interesting point, of course if they offered to sling them a few quid for an appearance fee after the fact, few are in a position to say no.
I used to like the programme, they would for the most part be doing good work, they’d be chasing up money owed to Mr or Mrs Average for some shoddy building work or damaged car, but there’s been a massive swing of late to chasing up people who seem to be at their lowest ebb and then trying to sell the human interest aspect of it “oh it’s so sad I have to turf this family out of their home”.
I feel dirty watching other people’s misfortune for the sake of entertainment, so I stopped watching.
Bailiffs (real ones, not the one who scare people into paying money they probably don’t owe by pretending to be bailiffs) do the dirty work that keeps the wheels turning. I’ve worked with a few over the years, some drifted into it and are surprisingly normal, lots are just into being ‘honest bullies’ they progress from ‘door work’ to Event security, Debt collection and finally court appointed bailiff. You’re meant to be a fine upstanding member of the community to be a bailiff, no criminal convictions, notbad debt data, you can’t even really be accused of something serious or be a known associate of criminals – they meant to be above reproach, after all they are granted power of entry that exceeds Police powers, imagine coming home one day to find a pair of them sat in your lounge eyeing up your TV “oh sorry, Mrs Baddebt died did she?, can you prove it? Okay, we’ll leave then, sorry about the door” but at least one of them on CPWTA is a convicted Drug Dealer and another was bestest mates with Levi Bellfield. They’re not so polite, or indeed as above board on the days they’re not being filmed.
The really cool side of ‘asset recovery’ you’ll never see on TV. The Guy’s who’ll go over to Lithuania to recovery a fraudulently taken crane or excavator, or stake out and ‘buy’ a rung lorry at auction to recover it.
