Federal Act
on the Intelligence Service
(Intelligence Service Act, IntelSA)

¹ FIS em­ploy­ees may be is­sued with weapons for op­er­a­tions in Switzer­land if they are ex­posed to spe­cial dangers in the course of their ser­vice du­ties.

² Armed em­ploy­ees may only use their weapons for self-de­fence or in emer­gen­cies and only in a man­ner ap­pro­pri­ate to the cir­cum­stances.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the cat­egor­ies of em­ploy­ee that may carry weapons and the train­ing that they re­quire.