FECL 06 (June 1992): THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO REORGANIZE INTERNAL SECURITY ACTIVITIES

FECL 06 (June 1992):

THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO REORGANIZE INTERNAL SECURITY ACTIVITIES

The Swiss government's attempts to preserve and develop its preventive police surveillance and intelligence activities centres on the following projects:

Modernisation of data processing by the further improvment of the electronic police database RIPOL;
securing the secrecy of informers and of cooperation with foreign services threatened by the massive calls for total disclosure of the former files of the political police;
adaption of border control policies to Schengen standards prepared by a commission of experts "border police control";
extension of criminal investigation in the forefront of concrete delinquency (preventive policing) by amendments of criminal and procedural law;
maintenance of political policing publicly justified by periodical governmental reports on new forms of extremism;
amendment of the law on data protection as a condition for covert police and intelligence operations;
legalisation of preventive and political policing by the introduction of a law on "state protection".