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Glad you're ok and that the driver made it a less stressful experience.
The officers should NOT have phoned you to tell you off. IF there are no injuries and noone was at fault then the preferred option is through insurance companies or even civil proceedings. But seeing as there was clearly someone at fault, you could have been seriously injured AND there was damage to your bike (which no doubt costs more than a lot of cars on the road). A collision report book should have been completed.
If you feel strongly about it, by all means go into the nearest nick and complain with names and shoulder numbers of officers if you have them. It's exactly these kind of actions that give the Met a bad name.
Oh, and blaming it on statistics and targets is bull$hit. I hear this thrown about too easily, I've never heard of it. It was just someone not seeing an incident from someone else's perspective, something that they are required to do by the nature of their job.