[kingkongjaffa]

While this might be true, the police are the ones who decide if they will prosecute. There’s no such thing as pressing charges or deciding to drop charges as the victim of a crime in the UK. The police will investigate and decide, so the warnings written on the walls of buildings are not really worth anything.

You can however do things like refuse to give evidence to torpedo the court case if you wanted to functionally “drop the charges” but if there’s still a chargable offense in the eyes of the police and credible evidence otherwise then the court case can still proceed regardless of your feelings.