Bird of Paradise
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When does the eye witness physically eyeball and identify the suspect?
(Note : in the uk it would not even be allowed to name someone let alone put their photos in the media connecting them to a murder unless they had been charged with it so even that part is alien to me)
Shires, since you also asked me this question, I'm going to reply here.
I am not replying in any official capacity so my answer may not be 100% but I think we must differenciate your use of the word Person Of Interest (POI) and Suspect.
From all I have read and my experience following cases, pictures are shown when LE believes they have a Suspect.
I'm sure there are many articles on the web to explain the procedure, but this is one I already had bookmarked from long ago.
Hope it's useful.
https://www.nap.edu/read/18891/chapter/4