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The Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) [1] [a] of Switzerland is subject to the Federal Department of Justice and Police.It is responsible for the coordination between cantonal police corps and between Swiss and foreign police forces.
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.
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 Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS (English: Task Force TIGRIS, French: Groupe d'intervention TIGRIS, Italian: gruppo d'intervento TIGRIS) is a police tactical unit of the Federal Criminal Police, the investigative arm of the Swiss Federal Office of Police.
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.
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]
Pages in category "Federal law enforcement agencies of Switzerland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The federal administration of Switzerland [1] is the ensemble of agencies that constitute, together with the Swiss Federal Council, the executive branch of the Swiss federal authorities. The administration is charged with executing federal law and preparing draft laws and policy for the Federal Council and the Federal Assembly .