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Federal employees are already required to report suspicious activity. <\/p>\n
Keystone Pool \/ Urs Flueeler <\/p>\n
The federal government and the cantons are planning to introduce a mandatory reporting requirement for any indications of organised crime.\n<\/p>\n
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An employee at a land registry office who notices suspicious real estate purchases, or a food inspector who finds evidence of money laundering during an inspection at a bar: In the future, they may be required to inform law enforcement authorities if they encounter evidence of organised crime. This was confirmed by Eva Wildi-Cort\u00e9s, director of the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol), on Swiss public television, SRF.<\/p>\n
The reporting requirement would apply to all cantonal and municipal employees. The cantons themselves proposed this as part of a consultation process that has just concluded, says Wildi-Cort\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Employees of land registry offices, food inspectors, and labor market inspectors are very close to the action. \u201cThey have insight into business operations. They notice irregularities that they can report. We rely on that,\u201d said the Fedpol director.<\/p>\n
Originally, the federal government had planned only a right to report. Government employees would thus have been free to decide whether or not to file a report \u2013 but if they did report something, they would not have been liable to prosecution.<\/p>\n
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Fedpol hopes that, thanks to reports from municipalities and cantons, the federal government and the cantons will be better able to uncover the covert activities of drug rings, human trafficking gangs, or cybercriminals. The goal is to prevent the infiltration of the economy and society.<\/p>\n
The federal government and the cantons intend to finalise the new reporting requirement by the end of the year as part of a national action plan to combat organised crime. The cantons themselves will then be responsible for implementing it.<\/p>\n
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Switzerland is increasingly affected by organised crime. To counter this growing threat, the country is to adopt a national strategy by the end of 2026. For the new director of fedpol, Eva Wildi-Cort\u00e9s, this shift is \u201ccrucial\u201d if Switzerland is to continue fighting criminal networks effectively. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Read more: Switzerland to adopt a national strategy to combat organised crime Some cantons already have a mandatory reporting requirement in place, while others only grant government employees the right to report. In still other cantons, employees currently have no leeway. Under certain circumstances, they may even face criminal charges if they breach official secrecy by reporting their observations. <\/p>\n Federal employees are already subject to a reporting requirement.<\/p>\n Fedpol exposure<\/p>\n For years, Fedpol has been warning that criminal groups are infiltrating the economy, society, and even government agencies. It provided proof of this itself at the end of April, when a Fedpol officer was exposed.<\/p>\n He is alleged to have sold investigative information to the drug mafia. Director Wildi-Cort\u00e9s says she did not know the Fedpol Federal Security Service employee personally. Her federal agency has over 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n Wildi-Cort\u00e9s emphasises that her staff uncovered the mole on their own. Following the arrest, they checked whether all regulations \u2013 for example, regarding access rights to police data \u2013 had been followed: \u201cAt first glance, no mistakes were made.\u201d<\/p>\n However, a more in-depth analysis is currently underway. It is possible that further measures will be taken, such as stricter screening procedures for new hires.<\/p>\n +\u00a0How we produce news in English<\/a> Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal employees are already required to report suspicious activity. Keystone Pool \/ Urs Flueeler The federal government and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,301,629,22825,28627,100,1292,1812,17,630],"class_list":["post-119474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-foreign-affairs","tag-beat-workplace","tag-kpi-srg-curation-geopolitics","tag-kpi-srg-curation-macroeconomics-economics","tag-latest-news","tag-law-and-order","tag-production-type-curation","tag-switzerland","tag-work"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117146773386375487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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