Good for you DJ! Slightly off topic, i was the victim of a really vile crime and had the screen / special measures put in place and if anyone reads this and is in a predicament whether to have them or not, for me personally it made the whole court proceedings a lot more doable and definetly helped with my anxiety not having to see my attacker!😊

Two tier policing... If it was the auditor that had done the assault, he'd have been in cuffs !!

An apology under duress (fear of consequences) is not an apology.

So the police will give a violent thug a caution, but someone silently praying on the street is prosecuted. This is why cops are hated.

Try knocking a pen and notebook out of a police officer's hand. Conditional caution & letter of apology? I think not.

disappointed in the police here massively, if someone slapped somethinf out of a policemans hand, they would do time.

You can assault someone now and just issue a apology? Never knew that. 😳😳😳😳😤😤😤🙏🙏🙏

Just a half-hearted apology? No charges? That's outrageous!🤮If a person with a fan base(like DJ) experiences assault and the police take no action, it makes clear that an average John Doe stands no chance of receiving justice.

Police bottled it that was a clear assault and should have been dealt with by the courts. Disgrace police treat victims awful.

Why is the sergeant acting as judge? Surley his role is to gain evidence and pass on to the CPS who then make a decision as to the possibility of a successful prosecution. The letter of apology does not need to be accepted by the victim and the victim should have influence as to the progression of the case. Has the CAA been informed of the crime of endangering the flight of an aircraft directly? In my opinion the CAA must directly prosecute as a test case for public (UAV flyers) interest. If they do not it leaves the law invalid and so opens up the capability of individuals to abuse the rights of responsible flyers. Well done DJ for following this up and i hope it reaches a correct conclusion. 😎

It's not an apology if it's to be kept confidential. An apology must be public for obvious reasons.

Read the letter and can't actually see an apology, just acceptance that his behaviour was inappropriate. Total and utter nonsence and not in compliance with the conditional caution.

DJ your been shifted one by the Police & Mr Carson , I bet at Libra they all laughing , DJ thanks for sharing

Lesson from this never bother calling police, they are incompetent.

So basically the police are covering up for the manager, bet they wrote the apology

Confirmation that the police prioritise big business. The public are definitely second class. Thanks for sharing this.

Imagine if it was the other way around..?(DJ assaulting a worker…) He would be in nick, sharpish.

You have to sue mate, he has no chance as he has admitted all, he can not control who has sight of a letter he sends you, go for £10k, settle for £8k, then sue his company for the same. Not a lawyer, just a supporter

The nice thing about cameras is that the auditor can review the video as many times as he wants, and the other party may have forgotten most of the confrontation after a couple of months. So the auditor always has the advantage. And not letting him get away with it is great.

I would take this to civil court.

The problem is that drone operators have all the responsibilities of a pilot but none of the protections 😞 CAA/UK-Police, be ashamed.

It's a criminal.offence to interfere with a drone pilot physically. So this is the police ignoring a filmed offence!

Giving out a keyring while making your statement was brilliant 😂

Officers seem to take public photography more seriously than an assault like this. It's unfortunate.

You are 'not allowed' to ask the CPS to consider something but they are allowed to ask you to keep an apology letter confidential? They serve the people or at least they are supposed to. DO NOT COMPLY.

DJ giving out keyrings in the middle of a police interview .i got the giggles big time .

Send this to HNK im sure they will sue this individual and company for you. Im sure they will settle quite quickly

This is pathetic police work, leaving it until the day of the interview to ask for the crucial video. Then, they ignore the air traffic endangerment offence. Well done DJ, for putting this insincere piece of bog roll substitute up for us to see. It must have taken the lardy bully boy's secretary a minute and a half to write. As for sergeant slime, all I can say is that he must be in the same lodge as lardy.

Phil Carson & his brotherhood of thugs should be sacked. Libra Speciality Chemicals Ltd should be ashamed having their employees behave in the manner they did. Where is your code of conduct & has your company any ethics. DISGRACE

DANGEROUS TO ALLOW AN IRATE MAN HIT YOUR CONTROLLER WHILE THE DRONE IS UP IN THE AIR. APPALLING. NOW YOU HAVE THE LETTER AND HE ADMITTED TO EVERYTHING SO TAKE THIS A STEP UP FURTHER. IF DJ DID THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE OR A COP HE WOULD BE IN JAIL.

So you assault someone but as long as you apologise by letter and not even in person that's alright is it? What an absolute farce.

This situation's not at all funny, but the fact that Libra Chemicals is listed on Google Maps as an 'adult day care centre' is absolutely hysterical 😂😂😂

What's the point in having a law if the police aren't interested in enforcing it? They'll happily use the Terrorist Act etc. against you. As for Laura Steele saying it is not for you to decide what crimes the CPS pursue, we'll that's just rude. The CPS won't pursue a crime that an individual hasn't been charged for, so what exactly is she saying here?

40:00 that's actually a result. I know it's not very satisfying, but given the huge backlog in the court system I'm actually surprised that they performed a proper investigation. Well done for not letting this go unchallenged.

Interesting, isn't it? How it's the police who are deciding what someone is charged with and what punishment they are to receive?

HNK private prosecution's he has admitted assault to the police. THE THUG

Proof of corporate protection by the police if any was needed. Increasing the divide everyday. Well done for highlighting our 2 tier police.

I've emailed him directly what a disgrace. How do these people get off with such anger and blatant law breaking. Unreal.

A joke of an apology letter. If he truly was sorry, he should've invited you to the company and shake your hand and apologize in person. Then just show you around the company and maybe some coffee or food. That would be a proper apology. I would accept that.

This really shocks me. As a father that has been through the family court I have lost every thing. My home of 16yrs my children my belongings my life. With out any evidence any where near like u have( no real evidence in fact) And u have to settle with an apology. This breaks me.

Disgusting outcome , if he assaulted a police officer I wonder what the outcome would be 😡🤦

I went there and a member of staff said they didn't care DJ was assaulted. Video is on my channel.

Another day when justice isnt done, I feare for our legal system these days. A very dramatyc statement DJ Lol

Police received a brown envelope from Mr Carson?

So the knowledge gained from this experience is, that if the manager behaves like an aggressive tool he gets a slap on the wrist for being a naughty boy! but if he conducts himself in an appropriate manner, its ok for his staff to therefore behave like wankers?? mollycoddling the guilty means less paperwork but doesnt and wont prevent it from happening again, complete joke of an outcome!!

Cautions are a convieniant excuse for the police to dismiss incidents whilst pretending to serve justice to victims. A caution means absoultely nothing to the perpetrator. The attitude of the police is disgraceful but the courts would only fail you too anyway. Go and knock a pride flag out of someone's hand at an event and see what happens to you.

Police siding with local, "importantc citizens over and out-of-towner.

Hang on ,,,, *”A Police Decision Maker ?”* That’s not even a thing. There was a serious crime committed & admitted that could have resulted with severe harm 🤦🏻

They needed a witness statement even though they have the video with EVERYTHING that was said and done right there in front of them ? How much more useless can they get !?

someone please pass this to blackbelt barrister, also on youtube. He has commented before about DJ.

This outcome is unsatisfactory. This needs to be investigated

What an utter joke! The police in England don't take things seriously enough. I'm english and grew up in the black country and have seen how lenient the CPS are. I moved to Scotland 10 years ago and here we don't have the CPS. It's the Procurator Fiscal. Everything gets passed through them and it's either a fine or a court date. If he had committed that offence in Scotland then without a doubt he would have had at least a fine. Makes me angry how the police are strict with us drone pilots and making sure we are flying correctly or they seize drones and/or arrest us but someone can commit an offence to a drone pilot, endangering people and as long as they type an apology in an email then alls well!!

Can't be good for the company's reputation, can it...

18727 Sergeant Hemmings shows their support of the physically violent and does their absolute best to make sure the man is not punished for a Documented, Admitted to assault~~ A victim should be able to decide if it's reasonable or not, not the guys drinking buddies.

An the police wonder why some take the law into their own hands what a joke are justice system is awful

That is absolutely shocking keep up the good work dj

At times their correspondence made you sound like the perpetrator of the assault.

Extremely concerning also is the fact that the police tried to gaslight you into not showing the apology when by their own admission this was the end of the matter and the investigation had concluded. They are protecting the aggressor and subtlety threatening the victim who should be the one getting the support. I think the police were embarrassed and wanted this to be all off social media but DJ saw through this I'm glad to see.

A very interesting update, DJ. I'm not really surprised at the decision reached by the police. Although pretty traumatic for you at the time, it was a fairly low-level "assault"/incident. I think the MD realised straight away that he'd overreacted and did back off quickly. He has apologised and now received some much-deserved public comeuppance. What I am surprised at, though, is the poor grammar used by two supposedly professional people in the update. PC Laura Steele wrote in her covering letter: "outside of" instead of outside, "libra chemicals" with no capitals, "Crime" which didn't need a capital and "Crime for assault" instead of Crime of assault. And MD Phil Carlson used very amateur/annoying repetition in his letter of apology. Employing "interaction" twice in his two-line second paragraph. And "future" twice in his closing one-line paragraph/sentence. Doesn't the guy possess a thesaurus?

@DJAudits Do you know why he wrote "Without Prejudice" or what it means? If you do not know what it means, then Mr Carson has used it in the wrong context (both parties need to know why it has been stated). It's a basic statement when the person/s are accepting their wrongdoings, it's to stop you, from taking him to a civil court and using it for financial damages against him. Meaning he did something wrong and is admitting it, BUT you cannot use that admission, in a civil court, as an admission of guilt (even though it is). A nice caveat to include in an admission of guilt, if done properly.

Why you were there and at what time, is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the assault itself and are just trick questions to find something to get you on something. Never answer questions like that. And, here in The Netherlands we have an Ombudsman where we can go to if the outcome of a police investgation is not what you expect. They will review the case and correct or not correct the police decision. There's a onbudsman in the UK aswell.

So they protect big business, ok then .

Two tier policing. Its everywhere!

Love the commentary to the guy on phone. Could here the smile in his voice 😂😂

Carson is obviously friendly with the coppers.

Given the way Big Phil acted in the original vid, I fully expected the apology letter to be written in crayon and smeared with a suspicious brown stain.

Outstanding work DJ. The truth is out there now. If he was convicted of a criminal offence as a CEO. He would not be allowed to enter America on a Business visa, for international meetings. Including some other countries. That may have been taken into account. Not to proceed to the courts. Show me the money Thank you for your content as you defend your rights in accordance with the relevant laws.

Would the CAA be the ones to prosecute the drone law?

Appreciate the update on this 👍🏼 bloke was well out of order

Absolute piss take - they had no intention of siding with a scummy KZfaqr - 2 tier policing in action! What if he had damaged your controller? What if it was in manual mode? Should be taken as seriously as if someone smashed the cockpit instruments to pieces in a jumbo jet!

I hope you'll get it sorted soon by court 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 DJ

Get in touch with the Police commissioner for GMP. Also email Andy Burnham as the mayor of Greater Manchester.

Can you imagine how long the prison sentence would be if someone slapped a drone controller out of a coppers hand ? Typical two tier policing in my opinion.

Surely the most serious crime was that of endangering a pilot whilst flying. I believe that the sergeant got it wrong this time, and you should have been more vocal in pushing the point.

I very much appreciate this kind of follow up on videos and although it may require a bit more thought and attention than a pure video I think that it is a very useful extension to the Citizen Journalist/Auditor Service. Please keep it up.

Is this what they call two tier policing? I'm just bamboozled with this one and have never heard the police doing this sort of phone interview. I thought your response to the questions was so well handled. Keep up the good work. "How tall was staff member one?" - I only know anyone's height if they stand next to me and they are either shorter or taller than me . I've got to watch this in two hits and hope I haven't asked any stupid questions before it gets to the end.

I'm going to come straight out and say, that was the most hollow apology EVER!!! I thank you

Why write a statement, when it is all on film.

They probably didn't want to deal with the air navigation order because it would mean involving the CPS, I don't think the CPS are involved in cautions. They also likely had no knowledge of the air navigation and were too lazy to do the research.

I suspect he’s a Lodge member & has used his connections to get this serious crime knocked down to a caution.

Keep strong DJ 💚🧠💪🤝🙋‍♂️.

Strange with all the video required for evidence crap, they have been prosecuting people on KZfaq for years without original footage. Why u see idiot drivers/riders blur out there clocks...

Playing devils advocate, if he had no prior criminal history and he was honestly sorry for his actions, they could have given him a Community Resolution which would not have been recorded on the PNC...but a conditional caution is a step up from that and is recorded. So he will always have this on record and if he was to ever do something similar again it would be used against him. I think its a fair outcome and he will certainly have faced a lot of sleepless nights during the process.

Bloody hell, they did everything they could to wriggle out of prosecuting that, then they (effectively) no-further-actioned it. Now you have an admission of the crime, feel free to make a civil claim against the criminal.

I must have been asleep and missed the announcement that a police Sargent can now consider himself to be a magistrate or judge and make a decision of what punishment is given for assault.

Contact the police complaints commission, or better still, a solicitor

You know to stay safe you can always run away and hide from this kind of situation.

Omg it’s the guy who assaulted DJ

Time and time again, another auditor exposes who exactly the police are protecting. Sorry to hear this DJ, and thank you to all that have shown support my visiting this site 😅

The police and courts are always on the side of corporations, they will always jump to their side, because they know somebody who knows somebody, the old boys club,. In this case they couldn't get him off the evidence was damming, so they softened the punishment, no doubt they'll be having a pint or two later at the old boys club to celebrate , and laugh at how easy they can bend the rules to suit themselves. Good on you for taking it all the way bro. Nuff respect.👊

What a bulls**t apology The police are useless unless it affects them.

Perseverance and patience very admirable dealing with all that. Respect. It is patently obvious the police were trying to get this off their hands for whatever reason, rather than doing what should have been done - an assault conviction, and also aerial issue.

Don't accept the apology and send a written complaint to the Home Secretary saying this sort of a disposal of a criminal assault and beating is not acceptable. Then the press. What have you got to lose?

£50 to anyone who can prove he actually wrote that letter 😂😂😂

Might be worth reporting it to the CAA as I believe they have the authority to prosecute. (not 100% on that)

Dude! Why did you have to give out a keyring on the phone! It made me crack up so much! Absolutely loved it! I half expected a “from abovvvvvveeee!” too.

You send them the video of an unprovoked assult, but they need ORIGINAL footage? It's funny how if DJ had pushed him, he'd of been off in cuffs the same day. THEN they would investigate.

I would have pushed harder,as I feel you are correct in saying that the law of interfering was crossed. Can you not press further ?!

Good on you for pursuing this DJ. It is awful that you had to endure this aggression. I think this decision by the police is very disturbing. Surely it should be a decision for a court to decide what happens. Isnt that why we have the courts? What gives the police the right to decide who gets presented to the courts and who doesnt? Which apologies to accept and which ones not to? How do we know these decisions are being consistently applied? What public oversight is there of all of this to make sure that this power the police have is not being abused? Would an uneducated, non english speaking, poor man be given the same leniency? Somehow i think not. Can victims appeal the decisions of the police? And if not, why not? I can entirely understand an out of court disposal where both parties agree, but where the victim wants a prosecution to happen, and there is sufficient evidence to do it, then i dont see what right the police have to deny the victim that right. Who are they serving here? Also I think the way your request for consideration of the endangering aircraft offence was dismissed was really quite rude. At the very least you should have been offered an explanation of why that offence could not be prosecuted. If they dont even consider the offence it is no wonder nobody has ever been prosecuted for it!

Keep on publicly exposing the truth 👏 Today's world & most humans in it have become so toxic and narcissistic.. The truth always wins in the end 🙏