Ordinance
on the Security Units of Public Transport Companies
(PTSO)

This Or­din­ance lays down re­quire­ments for the op­er­a­tion of pub­lic trans­port se­cur­ity units, for their train­ing, equip­ment, arm­ing and co­oper­a­tion with po­lice au­thor­it­ies, and for reg­u­lat­ory con­trol by the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Trans­port (FOT).

In this Or­din­ance:

a.

Se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ingmeans a private or­gan­isa­tion un­der the Art­icle 5 para­graph 3 PTSA;

b.

Se­cur­ity per­son­nelmeans em­ploy­ees of a se­cur­ity or Trans­port Po­lice ser­vice who per­form se­cur­ity tasks.

The use of phys­ic­al force, aux­il­i­ary equip­ment and arms is reg­u­lated by the Use of Force Act of 20 March 2008² and the Use of Force Or­din­ance of 12 Novem­ber 2008³.

1 Se­cur­ity per­son­nel may em­ploy the fol­low­ing aux­il­i­ary equip­ment and arms:

a.

re­straints;

b.

nat­ur­al and syn­thet­ic pep­per sprays;

c.

ser­vice dogs;

d.

truncheons and de­fens­ive bat­ons.

2 The Trans­port Po­lice may also use fire­arms.

1 Se­cur­ity per­son­nel may de­mand the pay­ment of a se­cur­ity de­pos­it from any per­son in con­tra­ven­tion of the con­di­tions of car­riage who is un­able to provide sat­is­fact­ory evid­ence of iden­tity and ad­dress or who does not have a per­man­ent ad­dress in Switzer­land.

2 The amount of the se­cur­ity de­pos­it de­pends on the likely level of the fine, the costs, and the dam­ages and ex­penses in­curred.

3 The se­cur­ity de­pos­it may be provided in cash or by deb­it or cred­it card pay­ment, by hand­ing over an item of value or by present­ing a guar­an­tee from a bank or in­sur­ance com­pany es­tab­lished in Switzer­land.

4 A re­ceipt shall be is­sued in ac­know­ledg­ment of the se­cur­ity de­pos­it re­ceived.

5 If a crim­in­al com­plaint is filed against the per­son con­cerned, the se­cur­ity de­pos­it shall be handed over to the pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies with the re­port of the of­fence. Any bal­ance re­main­ing shall be re­fun­ded.

1 The Trans­port Po­lice shall pub­lish the prices of its ser­vices in a sched­ule of charges.

2 Trans­port com­pan­ies shall keep the ac­counts of the Trans­port Po­lice sep­ar­ately.

3 They shall of­fer their Trans­port Po­lice ser­vices to oth­er trans­port com­pan­ies at com­par­able con­di­tions.

1 The FOT shall au­thor­ise a trans­port com­pany to del­eg­ate se­cur­ity ser­vice tasks to a se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing if the trans­port com­pany can show that the un­der­tak­ing in ques­tion sat­is­fies the con­di­tions pre­scribed un­der Art­icle 5 para­graph 1 of the Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2007⁴ on the Use of Private Se­cur­ity Com­pan­ies and has been ap­proved as a se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing in ac­cord­ance with can­ton­al law, where can­ton­al law provides for such ap­prov­al.

2 The trans­port com­pany shall enter in­to a writ­ten agree­ment with the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing on the del­eg­a­tion of the se­cur­ity tasks. The agree­ment must be ap­proved by the FOT.

3 The agree­ment shall re­quire the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing to:

a.

re­port on the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the del­eg­ated tasks at the re­quest of the trans­port com­pany or the FOT;

b.

dis­close the iden­tity of its se­cur­ity per­son­nel to the trans­port com­pany and to the FOT;

c.

im­me­di­ately re­place se­cur­ity per­son­nel who do not pos­sess the re­quis­ite skills or who are a hindrance to the ful­fil­ment of the tasks;

d.

im­me­di­ately in­form the trans­port com­pany and the po­lice units con­cerned of any cir­cum­stances li­able to hinder the ful­fil­ment of the tasks;

e.

im­me­di­ately re­port to the trans­port com­pany if the re­quire­ments in re­spect of the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing and in re­spect of train­ing cease to be met;

f.

train the se­cur­ity per­son­nel in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 para­graph 1 be­low.

4 The trans­port com­pany shall mon­it­or wheth­er the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing prop­erly dis­charges its ob­lig­a­tions un­der para­graph 3 above and the tasks del­eg­ated to it.

1 The trans­port com­pany or the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall en­sure that se­cur­ity per­son­nel meet the re­quire­ments laid down in Art­icle 6 of the Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2007⁵ on the Use of Private Se­cur­ity Com­pan­ies.

2 Trans­port Po­lice per­son­nel who per­form se­cur­ity tasks re­quire a po­lice of­ficer cer­ti­fic­ate is­sued by the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Edu­ca­tion, Re­search and In­nov­a­tion⁶.

3 The trans­port com­pany or the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall en­sure that the se­cur­ity per­son­nel can at­tend ap­pro­pri­ate train­ing courses.

1 The trans­port com­pany and the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall en­sure that se­cur­ity per­son­nel are iden­ti­fi­able in the course of their du­ties and are not li­able to be mis­taken for po­lice of­ficers.

2 The trans­port com­pany or se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall en­sure that the per­son­nel of the se­cur­ity ser­vice who per­form se­cur­ity tasks are iden­ti­fi­able when per­form­ing this func­tion and can­not be con­fused with em­ploy­ees of the Trans­port Po­lice or of the po­lice au­thor­it­ies.

The trans­port com­pany or se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall set forth the ar­range­ments for their co­oper­a­tion with the can­ton­al or com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies in a writ­ten agree­ment. A copy of this agree­ment must be sent to the FOT.

1 The trans­port com­pany or the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments to the FOT:

a.

the in­struc­tions is­sued to se­cur­ity per­son­nel;

b.

oth­er doc­u­ments and in­form­a­tion re­quired by the FOT in the ex­er­cise of its reg­u­lat­ory role.

2 The trans­port com­pany or the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall sub­mit to the FOT by the end of March of each year a re­port on the activ­it­ies of se­cur­ity units in the pre­ced­ing year. The mat­ters to be dealt with in such activ­ity re­ports are set out in the an­nex hereto.

3 The trans­port com­pany and the se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ing shall im­me­di­ately no­ti­fy the FOT of any events which sig­ni­fic­antly hinder the ful­fil­ment of their tasks.

1 The FOT may grant ex­cep­tions for per­son­nel who have hitherto per­formed rail­way po­lice tasks un­der the ex­ist­ing law that ex­empt them from the train­ing re­quire­ments (Art. 8).

By 30 June 2012 the trans­port com­pan­ies shall:

a.

trans­fer the Trans­port Po­lice tasks car­ried out un­der ex­ist­ing law by private or­gan­isa­tions to a Trans­port Po­lice ser­vice es­tab­lished in ac­cord­ance with this Or­din­ance;

b.

trans­fer the Trans­port Po­lice tasks car­ried out un­der ex­ist­ing law by trans­port com­pany per­son­nel to se­cur­ity per­son­nel in ac­cord­ance with this Or­din­ance;

c.

amend con­tracts with se­cur­ity un­der­tak­ings entered in­to un­der ex­ist­ing law so as to bring them in­to line with this Or­din­ance.

This Or­din­ance comes in­to force on 1 Oc­to­ber 2011.