Anton Widmer

Anton Widmer (born March 18, 1944 ) worked as a police officer and a Swiss ICRC delegate.

Life

Widmer studied law at the University of Zurich from 1967 to 1971 . He completed his studies in 1971 with a licentiate in law. Between 1974 and 1978 he did his doctorate at the University of Zurich. In 1978 he received his doctorate Dr. iur. with a dissertation on the Lucerne criminal investigation procedure. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a clerk at the Hochdorf District Court (LU).

In 1976 Widmer was appointed head of the criminal police of the Lucerne canton police . In 1976 he was the youngest criminal police chief in Switzerland. From 1982 to 1994, Widmer was in command of the Lucerne canton police, reorganized the canton police and headed the intercantonal Central Swiss project "Kapo 2000". In 1994 Widmer was elected Director of the Federal Police Office (BAP) by the Federal Council. Widmer reorganized the BAP (including by merging the Federal Police with the BAP), built up the money laundering reporting office and the USIS project organization, and negotiated (border) police cooperation and legal assistance agreements with France , Italy and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as head of the Swiss negotiating delegation out.

In 2000, Widmer was appointed director of the Swiss Police Institute in Neuchâtel (SPI). He also reorganized the SPI and drafted the vision of an “overall educational policy concept for police, law enforcement and justice”. In 2003 Widmer switched to the UN in Sukhumi ( Georgia ) as a police advisor . In 2005, Widmer joined the armed forces in East Africa (9 countries) as ICRC delegate for international humanitarian law. He has been retired since March 2008.

Widmer passed all military degrees up to colonel and was CVP - council of his home municipality Emmen from 1985 to 1989.

personal data
SURNAME	Widmer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1944