Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Dur­ing de­ploy­ment, the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or is sub­ject to the dir­ect in­struc­tions of the com­mand­ing of­ficer. Dur­ing de­ploy­ment, any con­tact between the pub­lic pro­sec­utor and the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or shall take place ex­clus­ively via the com­mand­ing of­ficer.

² The com­mand­ing of­ficer has the fol­low­ing du­ties in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

he or she shall brief the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or in de­tail and con­tinu­ously on the as­sign­ment and powers and on how to deal with the cov­er story.

b.

he or she shall in­struct and ad­vise the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or and con­tinu­ally as­sess the risk situ­ation.

c.

he or she shall keep a writ­ten re­cord of or­al re­ports made by the un­der­cov­er in­vest­ig­at­or and a full dossier on the op­er­a­tion.

d.

he or she shall in­form the pub­lic pro­sec­utor reg­u­larly and in full on the op­er­a­tion.