The course of Dostoyevky's Crime and Punishment - narrowing the gap between what the police know and what we know

The first chapter in part 2 (post-murder) of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866) finds the protagonist, Raskolnikov, waking and feeling sudden panic (not remorse): Are his clothes soaked in blood? He sets about cutting some blood-stained fringes from his clothes (always ragged anyway), then realizes he's made no plan to hide the items he'd stolen from the pawnbroker (he'd expected to pick up only cash); he stuffs some of the watches and other loot in a crevice behind his tattered wallpaper, obviously a terrible hiding spot should he ever become a suspect. Then the servant in his building, Nastasya, knocks on his door to present him with, of all things, a summons to appear at the police station. Immediate panic! R heads off to the police station, which is mobbed w/ various criminal elements and petitioners. He finds the officious young man who'd summoned him and gets into some sort of argument - it's hard to follow the exact course of his thinking, intentionally so I believe, as the choppy narration of this chapter gives us the feeling of R's panic and distress. At last the Chief of Police (head of the station of bureau, of course - not of the whole city police force) arrives and R learns that the summons has nothing to do w/ the murder - it's about money he owes to his landlady. With a wave of relief, R begins to act even more bizarrely to the point where he faints (a shadow of the epilepsy to which FD was subject?); on his revival, he hears the police officers discussing the murder; they'd been holding the 2 men who reported the murder, which is obviously absurd, but have released them and begun the investigation anew. R is so disturbed that he gets to the verge of approaching the police chief and confessing to the crime. Overall, this chapter does not really advance the plot - and of course we know much more than the police do, and the course of the novel involves bring the police every closer, inch by inch, to our level of knowledge about the Crime - but it does effectively convey the disturbances in R's mind: the killing was easy, compared w/ the cover-up and the guilty (if not, at least yet, remorse).