Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may or­der the use of spe­cial tech­nic­al devices for the sur­veil­lance of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions in or­der to listen to or re­cord con­ver­sa­tions, identi­fy a per­son or prop­erty or de­term­ine their loc­a­tion if:

a.

the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 269 are met;

b.

pre­vi­ous tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions sur­veil­lance meas­ures un­der Art­icle 269 have been un­suc­cess­ful or sur­veil­lance with these meas­ures would be fu­tile or dis­pro­por­tion­ately dif­fi­cult;

c.

the au­thor­isa­tion re­quired un­der tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions law has been ob­tained to use these devices at the time of use.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall keep stat­ist­ics on the use of these forms of sur­veil­lance. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails.