Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Searches shall be au­thor­ised by writ­ten war­rant. In cases of ur­gency, they may be au­thor­ised or­ally, but this must be con­firmed sub­sequently in writ­ing.

² The war­rant shall in­dic­ate:

a.

the per­sons, premises, items or re­cords or re­cord­ings to be searched or searched for;

b.

the pur­pose of the meas­ure;

c.

the au­thor­it­ies or per­sons au­thor­ised to con­duct the meas­ure.

³ If there is a risk in any delay, the po­lice may au­thor­ise the manu­al search of body ori­fices and body cav­it­ies and carry out searches without a war­rant; they shall in­form com­pet­ent crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity about the search im­me­di­ately.

⁴ The po­lice may search a per­son who has been stopped or ar­res­ted per­son, in par­tic­u­lar in or­der to guar­an­tee the safety of oth­er per­sons.