Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies are ob­liged to re­port to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity all of­fences that have come to light or that have been re­por­ted to them in the course of their of­fi­cial activ­it­ies, un­less they them­selves are re­spons­ible for pro­sec­ut­ing the of­fence.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall reg­u­late the duty to re­port of mem­bers of oth­er au­thor­it­ies.

³ The duty to re­port ceases to ap­ply for per­sons who have the right to re­main si­lent or to re­fuse to testi­fy in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 113 para­graph 1, 168, 169 and 180 para­graph 1.