Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The po­lice shall in the course of their en­quir­ies es­tab­lish the facts rel­ev­ant to an of­fence on the basis of re­ports, in­struc­tions from the pub­lic pro­sec­utor or their find­ings.

² They must in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

se­cure and eval­u­ate forensic and oth­er evid­ence;

b.

identi­fy and in­ter­view per­sons suf­fer­ing harm and sus­pects;

c.

if ne­ces­sary, stop and ar­rest or at­tempt to trace sus­pects.

³ Their activ­it­ies are gov­erned by the reg­u­la­tions on in­vest­ig­a­tions, evid­ence and com­puls­ory meas­ures, sub­ject to the spe­cial pro­vi­sions of this Code.