Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Doc­u­ments that identi­fy the ac­cused may be re­tained out­side the case file for the fol­low­ing peri­ods and, in the event of a reas­on­able sus­pi­cion that a new of­fence has been com­mit­ted may also be used:

a.

in the event of the ac­cused's con­vic­tion or his or her ac­quit­tal on the grounds that he or she not leg­ally re­spons­ible due to a men­tal dis­order: un­til the ex­piry the time lim­its for the re­mov­al of the rel­ev­ant entry from the re­gister of crim­in­al con­vic­tions;

b.

in the event of ac­quit­tal on oth­er grounds, the aban­don­ment of the pro­ceed­ings or a de­cision to not to bring pro­ceed­ings: un­til the de­cision be­comes leg­ally bind­ing.

² If it is an­ti­cip­ated in a case un­der para­graph 1 let­ter b due to cer­tain mat­ters that doc­u­ments identi­fy­ing the ac­cused could be used in the in­vest­ig­a­tion of fu­ture of­fences, they may be re­tained and used with the con­sent of the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings for a max­im­um of 10 years from when the de­cision be­comes leg­ally bind­ing.

³ Doc­u­ments identi­fy­ing per­sons oth­er than the ac­cused must be des­troyed as soon as the pro­ceed­ings against the ac­cused have been con­cluded or aban­doned or it has been de­cided not to bring pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ If it be­comes clear be­fore the ex­piry of the time lim­its un­der para­graphs 1–3 that there is no longer any in­terest in re­tain­ing or us­ing the identi­fy­ing doc­u­ments, they shall be des­troyed.