I was 1 of the 36 in Operation Quest

[Floki]

Those notes from that notebook can be used in court. If you speak you own your words forever. You can be charged without ever making a statement. If they believe they have sufficient evidence then a statement makes no difference.

Garda tone makes no difference. A guard does not have to be polite to a law breaker. He only has to get his result.

The garda does have to prove that the person is breaking the law.
If no information is given and the garda are only going by speculation, then there isn't much that they can do.

With the phone they took, they are not allowed to access it without the permission of the owner or get a full warrant.
If they unlock the phone and use any information from what they find, then it is possible that if taken to court, that evidence will be thrown out of the window and the accuser could press charges.
Phones hold a lot of person data of your friends and family information, then you have photos and other person information
If any of this information is viewed or even released, then there could be big problems for the garda.

As for the BigBen leaving, the garda saw him leaving a building who claimed to them that he has business to attend too, but what business is that is something the garda didn't get and were not happy with not getting any answers they wanted to hear, which also means that that cannot use it against the accuser.
If they do, then this will be looked into and by then, the accuser may have to answer this and may even give out an answer in which they are not looking for anyway and therefore they all have wasted time.


This may not be fully correct, if so note if I am wrong or missed something.