Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The re­spons­ible de­part­ment re­gisters and stores crim­in­al re­cords data re­cor­ded and trans­mit­ted to the de­part­ment by can­ton­al, fed­er­al and for­eign au­thor­it­ies in con­nec­tion with crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings or in ful­fil­ment of oth­er stat­utory du­ties. This data may be used for com­par­is­on pur­poses to identi­fy a wanted or un­known per­son.

² The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may use and pro­cess data in terms of para­graph 1:

a.

the Com­puter Centre of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Justice and Po­lice;

b.

the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice;

c.

the bor­der posts;

d.

the po­lice au­thor­it­ies in the can­tons;

e.⁴⁵⁶

the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Mi­gra­tion (SEM).

³ Per­son­al data that relates to crim­in­al re­cords data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 is pro­cessed in sep­ar­ate in­form­a­tion sys­tems; the pro­ced­ure is sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 13 June 2008⁴⁵⁷ on Fed­er­al Po­lice In­form­a­tion Sys­tems, the Asylum Act of 26 June 1998⁴⁵⁸ and the Fed­er­al Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005⁴⁵⁹ on For­eign Na­tion­als. The DNA Pro­file In­form­a­tion Sys­tem is sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions of the DNA Pro­fil­ing Act of 20 June 2003⁴⁶⁰.⁴⁶¹

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil:

a.

reg­u­lates the de­tails, and in par­tic­u­lar re­spons­ib­il­ity for data pro­cessing, the cat­egor­ies of the data to be re­cor­ded, the re­ten­tion peri­od for the data and co­oper­a­tion with the can­tons;

b.

des­ig­nates the au­thor­it­ies that are au­thor­ised to enter and re­trieve per­son­al data by re­mote ac­cess or to which per­son­al data may be dis­closed in in­di­vidu­al cases;

c.

reg­u­lates the pro­ced­ur­al rights of the per­sons con­cerned, and in par­tic­u­lar the right to in­spect their data as well as to cor­rect, archive or des­troy such data;

d.⁴⁶²

reg­u­lates the trans­mis­sion of crim­in­al re­cords data by the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and the can­tons.

⁵ The SEM or the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice (fed­pol) may trans­mit the data to the na­tion­al sec­tion of the Schen­gen In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (N-SIS) and the Schen­gen In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (SIS) in an auto­mated pro­ced­ure for the pur­pose of is­su­ing SIS alerts in the SIS.⁴⁶³