Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ In or­der to in­vest­ig­ate the felony or mis­de­mean­our that is the sub­ject of the pro­ceed­ings, a sample may be taken to cre­ate a DNA pro­file of:¹²⁷

a.

the ac­cused;

b.

oth­er per­sons, in par­tic­u­lar vic­tims or per­sons en­titled to be present at the place of com­mis­sion, in­so­far as this is ne­ces­sary to dis­tin­guish their bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al from that of the ac­cused;

c.

de­ceased per­sons;

d.

bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al rel­ev­ant to the of­fence.

^1bis A sample may be taken from and a DNA pro­file cre­ated of the ac­cused if there are spe­cif­ic in­dic­a­tions that the ac­cused could have com­mit­ted fur­ther felon­ies or mis­de­mean­ours.¹²⁸

² The po­lice may or­der:

a.

a sample to be taken from per­sons by non-in­vas­ive meth­ods;

b.

the cre­ation of a DNA pro­file from bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al rel­ev­ant to the of­fence.

³ If it is only pos­sible to cre­ate the Y-DNA pro­file from bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al rel­ev­ant to the of­fence, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor may when in­vest­ig­at­ing a felony or­der its com­par­is­on with data in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 10 of the DNA Pro­files Act of 20 June 2003¹²⁹.¹³⁰