Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The de­ploy­ment of an un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or re­quires the au­thor­isa­tion of the com­puls­ory meas­ures court.

²The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court with­in 24 hours of or­der­ing the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­a­tion:

a.

the or­der;

b.

a state­ment of the reas­ons and the case doc­u­ments rel­ev­ant for au­thor­isa­tion.

³The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall de­cide and provide a brief state­ment of the reas­ons with­in 5 days of the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­a­tion be­ing ordered. It may grant au­thor­isa­tion sub­ject to a time lim­it or oth­er con­di­tions, or re­quest fur­ther in­form­a­tion or in­vest­ig­a­tions.

⁴The au­thor­isa­tion shall ex­pressly state wheth­er it is per­mit­ted:

a.

to pro­duce or al­ter of­fi­cial doc­u­ments in or­der to cre­ate or main­tain a cov­er;

b.

to guar­an­tee an­onym­ity;

c.

to de­ploy per­sons with no po­lice train­ing.

⁵The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall grant au­thor­isa­tion for a max­im­um of 12 months. Au­thor­isa­tion may be ex­ten­ded on one or more oc­ca­sions for a max­im­um of 6 months at a time. If an ex­ten­sion is re­quired, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall file an ap­plic­a­tion for the ex­ten­sion, stat­ing the reas­ons there­for, be­fore ex­piry of the cur­rent au­thor­isa­tion.

⁶If au­thor­isa­tion is not gran­ted or no au­thor­isa­tion has been ob­tained, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall ter­min­ate de­ploy­ment im­me­di­ately. All re­cords must be des­troyed im­me­di­ately. Find­ings made by means of the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­a­tion may not be used.