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It is responsible for the coordination between cantonal police corps and between Swiss and foreign police forces. It also controls the Swiss internal intelligence agency, Dienst für Analyse und Prävention (DAP; Analysis and Prevention Service) prior to being transferred to the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport in 2008.
The Federal Department of Justice and Police (German: Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement, French: Département fédéral de justice et police, Italian: Dipartimento federale di giustizia e polizia, Romansh: Departament federal da giustia e polizia ⓘ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, and is equivalent to a ministry of justice in other countries.
From 2006 to 2011, she was deputy director at fedpol. From 2012 to July 2014, she served as director of the University Psychiatric Services of Bern, before taking over as director of the Federal Office of Police (fedpol) on 1 August 2014. [3] Nicoletta della Valle is divorced, mother of an adult daughter and lives in Bern. [4]
In Switzerland, police registered a total of 432,000 offenses under the Criminal Code in 2019 (−0.2% compared with previous year), of which 110,140 or 25.5 percent were cases of thefts (excluding vehicles, −2.0%), and 41,944 or 9.7 percent were thefts of vehicles (including bicycles, −10.1%), 46 were killings and 161 were attempted murders.
The matter of the unit's existence was raised in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, questioning its structure and operational methods. [21] In 2021, Federal Counselor Alain Berset is accused of abusing his power by sending Tigris to the house of his former lover. [22] The Swiss Federal Assembly announced an investigation in the case. [23]
Switzerland thus has a relatively high gun ownership rate.There are no official statistics, and estimates vary considerably. The 2017 report from Small Arms Survey has estimated that the number of civilian-held firearms in Switzerland is 2,332,000, which given a population of 8.4 million corresponds to a gun ownership of around 27.6 guns per 100 residents.
Civil Protection in Switzerland (CP) (German: Zivilschutz, ZS; Italian: Protezione civile, PC; French: Protection civile, PCi [1]) is a body organized into 26 cantonal divisions, [2] whose aim is to provide assistance to the population in the event of disasters or other harmful events.
Jean-Luc Vez (October 12, 1957 in Fribourg–December 28, 2017 in Fribourg) was a Swiss administrative lawyer. From 2000 to 2014, he was head of the Federal Office of Police of Switzerland. [1] [2] [3]