Swiss Criminal Code

¹ At the re­quest of the of­fend­er, the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity may or­der the use of elec­tron­ic devices and their se­cure at­tach­ment to the of­fend­er’s body (elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing):

a.

in ex­e­cu­tion of a cus­todi­al sen­tence or an al­tern­at­ive cus­todi­al sen­tence of from 20 days to 12 months; or

b.

in lieu of day re­lease em­ploy­ment or day re­lease em­ploy­ment and ex­tern­al ac­com­mod­a­tion for a term of from 3 to 12 months.

² The ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity may or­der elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing only if:

a.

it is not an­ti­cip­ated that the of­fend­er will ab­scond or com­mit fur­ther of­fences;

b.

the of­fend­er lives in per­man­ent ac­com­mod­a­tion;

c.

the of­fend­er is do­ing reg­u­lated work or train­ing or is sim­il­arly oc­cu­pied for at least 20 hours a week or can be as­signed to do the same;

d.

the adults liv­ing with the of­fend­er in the same ac­com­mod­a­tion con­sent; and

e.

the of­fend­er agrees to the im­ple­ment­a­tion plan drawn up for him.

³ If the re­quire­ments of para­graph 2 let­ter a, b or c are no longer met or if the of­fend­er fails to ful­fil the ob­lig­a­tions set out in the im­ple­ment­a­tion plan, the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity may dis­con­tin­ue the elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing and or­der the sen­tence to be served in the nor­mal man­ner or in the form of semi-de­ten­tion, or re­strict the free time avail­able to the of­fend­er.