Compulsory Measures Court

The Compulsory Measures Court (German: Zwangsmassnahmengericht, French: Tribunal des mesures de contrainte, Italian:Tribunale delle misure coercitive) is an institution of Swiss Criminal law. It rules on the provisional detention ("pre-trial detention") of an accused person, as well as on other compulsory measures.

Competences
A decision of the Compulsory Measures Court is required to order the following measures, :


 * Provisional detention;
 * Detention for security reasons;
 * Other compulsory measures :
 * DNA sampling, ;
 * Surveillance of correspondence;
 * Technical surveillance measures;
 * Surveillance of banking relationships;
 * Mission of an undercover agent;

Other compulsory measures do not need to be referred to the Compulsory Measures Court, such as the Swiss criminal law mandate.

Compulsory measures infringe fundamental rights and must comply with a number of conditions, including the principle of proportionality.

Legal basis

 * Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure archive (CCP) of October 5, 2007 (status February 1, 2020), SR 312.0.