Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings com­prise the po­lice en­quir­ies and the in­vest­ig­a­tion by the pub­lic pro­sec­utor.

² In the pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings, based on the sus­pi­cion that an of­fence has been com­mit­ted, en­quir­ies shall be car­ried out and evid­ence gathered in or­der to es­tab­lish wheth­er:

a.

a sum­mary pen­alty or­der should be is­sued to the ac­cused;

b.

charges should be brought against the ac­cused;

c.

the pro­ceed­ings should be aban­doned.