Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The po­lice shall in­form the pub­lic pro­sec­utor im­me­di­ately of ser­i­ous of­fences and oth­er ser­i­ous in­cid­ents. The fed­er­al and can­ton­al pub­lic pro­sec­utors may is­sue more de­tailed pro­vi­sions on this duty to provide in­form­a­tion.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may is­sue in­struc­tions and as­sign­ments to the po­lice at any time or take over the con­duct of the pro­ceed­ings. In the cases un­der para­graph 1, it shall if pos­sible con­duct the first es­sen­tial ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ings it­self.

³ The po­lice shall re­cord all their find­ings and the meas­ures they have taken in writ­ten re­ports and pass these on con­clu­sion of their en­quir­ies to­geth­er with the re­ports of of­fences, tran­scripts of ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ings, oth­er files and prop­erty and as­sets that have been seized dir­ectly to the pub­lic pro­sec­utor.

⁴ They may dis­pense with mak­ing a re­port if:

a.

there is clearly no need for the pub­lic pro­sec­utor to take fur­ther pro­ceed­ings; and

b.

no com­puls­ory meas­ures or oth­er form­al en­quir­ies have been car­ried out.