Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Com­puls­ory meas­ures may be ordered by:

a.

the pub­lic pro­sec­utor;

b.

the courts, or in cases of ur­gency, their dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings;

c.

the po­lice in cases spe­cific­ally provided for by law.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may re­strict the powers of the po­lice to or­der or carry out com­puls­ory meas­ures to po­lice of­ficers of a spe­cif­ic rank or func­tion.