"Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, who initially said the response had been 'proportionate', later apologised to MPs after it emerged the 70 police officers he claimed had been injured in clashes with protesters had suffered unrelated ailments - including bee stings and a toothache."

"The confiscation of the camp's supply of soap was justified by police 'because protesters might use it to make themselves slippery and evade the grip of police', the report says."

And this from yesterday's Telegraph -
" ... more than 1,000 serving police officers have criminal convictions."

" ... no fewer than 77 serving officers have convictions for violence and 96 for dishonesty."