In an investigation, a person of interest is described as:

• A. A confidential informant
• B. A victim of the crime
• C. A person who has been formally charged
• D. Someone involved in the investigation who has not been arrested

Answer: (D)

In law enforcement, a person of interest is someone connected to a case whom investigators want to talk to or gather information from, but who hasn’t been arrested or charged yet. This status places them within the investigation as someone investigators are examining, without implying formal suspicion or legal action. That makes the description “someone involved in the investigation who has not been arrested” the best fit.

A confidential informant is typically a cooperating source who provides information to the investigation, rather than someone being pursued as a potential subject of the case. A victim is not someone the investigators are trying to interrogate as a potential suspect. And once someone is formally charged, they are regarded as a suspect or defendant, not simply a person of interest.