Imagine if you didn't have to arrest people on the mere suspicion of having committed a criminal offence. OK, so you don't have to arrest people on suspicion but where you've got a named suspect, it's difficult to get the file past the various levels of supervision and audit without interviewing them under caution.
Imagine that rather than arresting them, you could write up a report and say, 'Look there's little or no evidence against person x, there are no independent witnesses and no physical evidence that really corroborates person x's story over person y. I've got no idea where person x lives so I'm saying that he's a suspect and leaving it at that.'
Imagine also that your workload was sufficiently manageable that you could decide for yourself, on the basis of your knowledge and experience as an invesitgator, which suspects were worth interviewing and which were not.
What would happen if you didn't have to interview suspects and they didn't have a right to speak to a solicitor in person? What if you could simply charge them when you thought you had enough evidence and didn't have to refer to anyone else for advice? And what if you could hand out all the paperwork and do all the typing in the car?
How much time would you save? How much less time would you spend in the station? Would this be a charter for lazy coppers or an opportunity to use professional judgement?
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