Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The rel­ev­ant court shall or­der one or more le­ni­ent meas­ures in­stead of re­mand or pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion if such meas­ures achieve the same res­ult as de­ten­tion.

² Al­tern­at­ive meas­ures in­clude in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the pay­ment of money bail;

b.

the sur­ren­der­ing of a pass­port or iden­tity pa­pers;

c.

the re­quire­ment to stay or not to stay in a spe­cif­ic place or in a spe­cif­ic house;

d.

the re­quire­ment to re­port to a pub­lic of­fice at reg­u­larly in­ter­vals;

e.

the re­quire­ment to do a reg­u­lar job;

f.

the re­quire­ment to un­der­go med­ic­al treat­ment or a med­ic­al ex­am­in­a­tion;

g.

the pro­hib­i­tion of mak­ing con­tact with spe­cif­ic per­sons.

³ In or­der to mon­it­or such al­tern­at­ive meas­ures, the court may or­der the use of tech­nic­al devices and that they be se­curely fastened to the per­son be­ing mon­itored.

⁴ The or­der­ing of al­tern­at­ive meas­ures and ap­peals against such meas­ures are gov­erned mu­tatis mutandis by the reg­u­la­tions on re­mand and pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion.

⁵ The court may re­voke the al­tern­at­ive meas­ures at any time, or or­der oth­er al­tern­at­ive meas­ures or the ac­cused's re­mand or pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion if new cir­cum­stances so re­quire or if the ac­cused fails to ful­fil the re­quire­ments stip­u­lated.