Municipal police (Switzerland)

Names
German: Stadtpolizei or Gemeindepolizei
French: Police de la Ville or Police municipale
Italian: Polizia della città or Polizia comunale
Romansh: Polizia Cumûnala

The municipal police of Switzerland are a series of separate forces maintained by the municipalities of each canton. There are between 100[1] and 300[2] municipal police forces (therefore only approximately one-in-ten municipalities have their own police). Most of these forces are responsible for general law and order and parking enforcement only.[3] In some larger cities, the municipal police also carry out traffic control and in Zurich, Winterthur and Lausanne they provide a full policing service.[3] Municipal police forces send their recruits to the same regional police academies as the cantons do.[3]

For advanced training, the municipalities send their officers to the courses of the Swiss Police Institute.[3]

  1. ^ "Structure of the Swiss Police". Archived from the original on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  2. ^ "POLIS - Country Profiles of Participating and Partner States". osce.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13.
  3. ^ a b c d "CEPOL European Police College - An Agency of the European Union". europa.eu.