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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.
This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities (these English terms can be used interchangeably, as there is no official differentiation), which follows the FSO's definition (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012), as well as places with historic town rights (h) and/or market towns (m).
It is situated in the Old City of Bern, the medieval city center of Bern. It is part of the Innere Neustadt which was built during the second expansion in 1255 to 1260, though the plaza was not built until much later. It is located in front of the Bundeshaus, the Swiss Parliament Building, and it is part of the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage ...
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.
The federal court and administration moved into various buildings in the Old City. The Burgergemeinde Bern was a public corporation representing the city's citizens and the powerful patriciates , and thus the superior municipality during the period. With a narrow majority, their assembly accepted the election of Bern as the federal city.
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.
Fribourg [a] or Freiburg [b] is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine.Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, administrative and educational centre on the cultural border between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland.