Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall de­term­ine their own crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies and the titles that they use.

² They shall reg­u­late the com­pos­i­tion, or­gan­isa­tion and powers of the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies and the ap­point­ment of their mem­bers, un­less this Code or oth­er fed­er­al acts reg­u­late the same in full.

³ They may es­tab­lish the of­fices of a chief pub­lic pro­sec­utor or at­tor­ney gen­er­al.

⁴ They may es­tab­lish two or more sim­il­ar crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies and spe­cify the loc­al or ma­ter­i­al jur­is­dic­tion of each; ex­emp­ted there­from are the ob­jec­tions au­thor­ity and the court of ap­peal.

⁵ They shall reg­u­late the su­per­vi­sion of their crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies.