Ripol
Ripol (French Recherches informatisées de la police ) is the automated police search system in Switzerland . It is kept at the Federal Office of Police (fedpol). The legal basis has been in the RIPOL regulation since December 1, 2016.
Information capture
Various authorities can report alerts for entries in RIPOL, including the Federal Prosecutor's Office , the State Secretariat for Migration , the military justice authorities , the police authorities of the cantons , the central authority for handling international child abductions, the road traffic authorities and the Federal Intelligence Service (NDB). These authorities are also authorized to query data from RIPOL, but also, for example, the Swiss representations abroad with consular tasks as well as the Interpol General Secretariat and foreign Interpol offices.
The RIPOL records in particular searches for people and objects , unresolved crimes, persons involved in a case, in particular injured parties, legal representatives, witnesses or other third parties, holders of ID cards, holders of vehicles and those who find things of suspected origin, crime scenes and times, the course of action , further clarification and general business data.
RIPOL may also exchange data electronically with other information systems, for example with the computerized Infostar civil status register .
As soon as an advertisement or an investigation has become obsolete, the data in RIPOL will be blocked and automatically deleted after three months. Otherwise, the data on personal advertisements will only be kept until the statutory limitation period for prosecution or enforcement.
For criminal offenses, the data remains available for two years and is then automatically deleted in RIPOL when the perpetrator has been identified or the offense has expired. Unresolved crimes that include weapons or cultural assets remain in the system after the statute of limitations.
Data subjects' rights to information, rectification and deletion are based on the Federal Data Protection Act .
Cross-border police information exchange
Since March 1, 2002, the Swiss-German police contract, in conjunction with the Legal Assistance Act (IRSG), has enabled cross-border police cooperation with German authorities. Without the involvement of the judicial authorities, the police forces of both states may according to Art. 4 Para. V. m. Art. 75a para. 1 IMAC to exchange knowledge from police investigations and documents as well as from data systems such as RIPOL, registers and other collections in accordance with national law.
This applies in particular if the cross-border official traffic relates to criminal offenses where the focus of the offense and its prosecution is in the border area of the two countries. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the areas of the administrative districts of Freiburg, Tübingen and Stuttgart in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in Bavaria the areas of the administrative districts of Swabia, Upper Bavaria and Middle Franconia, and in the Swiss Confederation the areas of the cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Land, Aargau, Schaffhausen, Zurich, Thurgau and St. Gallen (Art. 4 Para. 7 Police Agreement).
Access to RIPOL is via the German police information system INPOL .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance on the automated police search system (RIPOL Ordinance) of October 26, 2016. Portal of the Swiss government, accessed on August 13, 2018.
- ↑ Contract between the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic of Germany on cross-border police and judicial cooperation (Swiss-German police contract) as of May 13, 2003. Portal of the Swiss government, accessed on August 14, 2018.
- ↑ Federal Act on International Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters of March 20, 1981, as of January 1, 2013. Portal of the Swiss government, accessed on August 14, 2018.
- ^ Andreas Zuber: The Swiss-German Police Contract Lucerne, April 16, 2007, p. 18.
