Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹For the pur­pose of in­vest­ig­at­ing an of­fence, the po­lice may stop a per­son and if ne­ces­sary bring that per­son to the po­lice sta­tion in or­der to:

a.

es­tab­lish the per­son's iden­tity;

b.

ques­tion the per­son briefly;

c.

es­tab­lish wheth­er he or she has com­mit­ted an of­fence;

d.

es­tab­lish wheth­er the per­son or prop­erty in his or her pos­ses­sion is be­ing traced.

²They may re­quire the per­son they have stopped to:

a.

provide their per­son­al de­tails;

b.

pro­duce iden­tity doc­u­ments;

c.

pro­duce prop­erty in his or her pos­ses­sion;

d.

open con­tain­ers or vehicles.

³They may re­quest mem­bers of the pub­lic to as­sist them to stop per­sons.

⁴If there are spe­cif­ic in­dic­a­tions that an of­fence is be­ing com­mit­ted or per­sons sus­pec­ted of an of­fence are loc­ated at a spe­cif­ic place, the po­lice may cor­don off the loc­a­tion and stop the per­son loc­ated there.