Where do i go from here? *Trigger warning*

[Storm4star]

So tonight I had a meeting with police. I complained because they screwed up my rape investigation. It went like this...
Police: yes we did screw up the investigation. I am very sorry. The detective will receive a written warning and we have changed our practices to try and make sure this doesn't happen again.
Me: ok, so where does that leave me?
Police: Well......we can't go any further with your case. But I am sorry.

I don't know what I am supposed to do with This? How do i move on?

WTF.....

Talk to victim support, Rape Crisis, Write to the Chief Constable demanding a meeting, MP, CPS is all I can think of right now.

I can't imagine how you must be feeling.

Thank you. I just feel somewhat shell shocked. I mean, if they really have changed their practices then that’s great but it doesn’t really help me. They even said the perpetrator had a great solicitor that told him exactly what to say to get away with it. I know that’s the solicitors job, I don’t even really blame them as such. But something is very very wrong here. I even said that and they said “I know, i’m Sorry”. If I could feel that the police had done their best but it fell apart because rape cases are hard to prove, well I feel I could live with that. But it’s all the what if’s that will haunt me, and again I said that to them and again all they could say was “yes, it’s hard, i’m Sorry”.

Have you exercised your victims right to review? Or did it go to trial and he got found not guilty?

The meeting today was both about my review and complaint and essentially they both had the same outcome. Not enough evidence to go to the CPS because the police didn’t collect vital evidence at the very beginning. That’s what I got the “sorry” for. The fact that they didn’t collect vital evidence at the beginning of the investigation. So the whole thing collapsed.