Citizen K reads with disdain but little suprise the revelation that the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has been supplying confidential police information to energy giant E.ON to help the company neutralise opposition to its plans for new coal-fired power stations.

This is, of course, not the first time that the government has been caught colluding with E.ON. Emails leaked last year showed how BERR was prepared to let the company dictate energy policy for the UK.

That sort of garden variety corruption was bad enough. But now BERR have co-opted the police into their cosy relationship with E.ON, we are into something else entriely. As Shami Chakrabarti says:

The government is in danger of turning police constables into little more than bouncers and private security guards for big business. Police should be used to protect potential victims but also to facilitate people's right to protest.

Shami Chakrabarti

I'm now losing count of the number of police scandals that have broken in recent weeks.