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From the end of July until the beginning of September the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games are being held in Paris. Switzerland is sending 17 police officers from the cantons Berne, Fribourg, Geneva, Neuchâtel, Vaud, Zug and Zurich to support the French police forces. These include seven defusers, nine explosive detection dog handlers and one protection dog handler. We wish the Swiss athletes lots of success!
In May 2024, police forces worldwide conducted «Operation JACKAL», coordinated by INTERPOL, targeting West African organized crime. In Switzerland, participating cantonal and city police, fedpol, and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) seized over 8.5 kilograms of cocaine, 88,000 Swiss francs, and over 10,000 euros in cash. 22 people were arrested, 10 of them detained.
The use of data on airline passengers (passenger name records PNRs), has already proven effective in other countries for fighting terrorism and other forms of serious crime. If Switzerland is to be able to use this efficient instrument, it needs to enact the required legislation. On 15 May 2024, the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the Passenger Name Records Act and forwarded it to Parliament.
Wars, polarisation, hatred, anti-Semitism, racism and climate change. fedpol operates in the midst of it all. Switzerland is not an island and, as a rich country in the heart of Western Europe, is not spared cross-border organised crime, economic and digital crime, violent extremism or terrorism. The fedpol Annual Report 2023 allows us to peer into the abyss of serious crime in Switzerland.
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