Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Where an ac­cused is serving a sen­tence or sub­ject to a crim­in­al meas­ure, the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall in­form the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences or meas­ures of any new crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and any de­cisions is­sued.

² The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall in­form the so­cial ser­vices and child and adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies of any crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings that have been ini­ti­ated and of any de­cisions in crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings if this is re­quired for the pro­tec­tion of an ac­cused or a per­son suf­fer­ing harm or his or her next-of-kin.¹⁹

³ If they es­tab­lish in the pro­sec­u­tion of of­fences in which minors are in­volved that fur­ther meas­ures are re­quired, they shall in­form the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies im­me­di­ately.²⁰

^3bis The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall no­ti­fy the De­fence Group of pending crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings against mem­bers of the armed forces or po­ten­tial con­scripts if there are ser­i­ous in­dic­a­tions or oth­er evid­ence that the per­son con­cerned could use a fire­arm to harm them­selves or oth­er per­sons.²¹

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may re­quire or au­thor­ise the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies to make fur­ther com­mu­nic­a­tions to au­thor­it­ies.