Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity may place the per­son con­victed in pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion to en­sure that the sen­tence or the meas­ure is ex­ecuted, provided any one of the re­quire­ments in Art­icle 439 para­graph 3 is met.²⁷⁸

² It shall sub­mit the case with­in 5 days of the per­son's de­ten­tion:

a.

to the court that im­posed the sen­tence or meas­ure that is to be ex­ecuted;

b.

in the case of sum­mary pen­alty or­ders, to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court at the place where the pub­lic pro­sec­utor is­sued the sum­mary pen­alty or­der.

³ The court shall de­cide on wheth­er the per­son con­victed re­mains in de­ten­tion un­til the com­mence­ment of the sen­tence or meas­ure.²⁷⁹

⁴ The court that ordered pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion has jur­is­dic­tion over ap­plic­a­tions for re­lease from de­ten­tion.²⁸⁰