Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

Com­puls­ory meas­ures are pro­ced­ur­al acts car­ried out by the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies that re­strict the fun­da­ment­al rights of the per­sons con­cerned and which serve:

a.

to se­cure evid­ence;

b.

to en­sure that per­sons at­tend the pro­ceed­ings;

c.

to guar­an­tee the ex­e­cu­tion of the fi­nal judg­ment.