- Last updated
- May 8, 2024
- Organization
- Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service
Description
The Swiss prosecution authorities and the Federal intelligence service (FIS) may order post and telecommunications surveillance measures for the purpose of investigating serious criminal offences based on the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code and the Federal Intelligence Service Act. The PTSS is obliged to produce statistics on surveillance measures based on Art. 16 para. 1 let. k of the Federal Act on Post and Telecommunications Surveillance (SPTA).
Although the number of monitoring measures has fallen this year, it is still slightly above the average of the last five years. While real-time monitoring is within this average, retrospective monitoring is slightly higher. However, emergency searches and tracing of persons show a strong increase compared to the above-mentioned average, while antenna searches are slightly lower.
The Articles 269bis and 269ter of the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code allow the use of special technical devices (IMSI catchers) and computer software (govware) for telecommunications surveillance.
In 2023, 9 operations used this special computer software (7 in the previous year). The number of operations using special technical devices (IMSI-Catcher) amounts to 160 compared to 120 in the previous year.
Note: The numbers presented by FIS and those by the PTSS are not comparable due to a different counting method.
Resources
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2023 - Überwachungen
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2023 - Auskünfte
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2020 - Überwachungen
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2020 - Auskünfte
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2019 - Überwachungen
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2019 - Auskünfte
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2018
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2017
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2016
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2015
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2014
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2013
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2012
- XLS Detaillierte Statistik 2011
- XLS Detailed statistics 2022 - Surveillance
- XLS Detailed statistics 2022 - Information
- XLS Detailed statistics 2021 - surveillance
- XLS Detailed statistics 2021 - information
Additional information
- Identifier
- Detaillierte Statistik ÜPF@dienst-ueberwachung-post-und-fernmeldeverkehr-uepf
- Issued date
- April 25, 2024
- Modified date
- May 8, 2024
- Publisher
- Dienst ÜPF
- Contact points
- Kontaktstelle Überwachung Post- und Fernmeldeverkehr
- Languages
- Language independent
- Further information
- Legal basis
- Landing page
- https://www.li.admin.ch/de/stats
- Documentation
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- Temporal coverage
- January 3, 2011 - December 31, 2023
- Spatial coverage
- -
- Update interval
- Annual
- Metadata Access
- API (JSON) Download XML
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