Canton Geneva police intend to fall into line with the rest of the country and lift a centuries-old ban on officers sporting beards, in a move likely to please hipsters.
Attacks on police officers should be more severely punished, the Swiss police federation (VSPB) has said following an incident in Basel on Saturday night when five officers were set upon by a group of 200 drunken youths.
Every police officer in Switzerland should receive anti-terrorism training, Geneva city councillor Pierre Maudet has said in an interview following the attack in Nice last week.
An alternative arts centre in Bern has been granted a reprieve after authorities in the city agreed a 1.5 million franc grant to keep it going until 2019.
A Swiss man has cried wolf one too many times. The 33-year-old was arrested in Geneva on Wednesday for calling the police emergency number 59 times since the beginning of the year.
A new European counter-terrorism centre opening this month will improve information-sharing among national police forces whose performance is under scrutiny after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November, the director of Europol has told AFP.
Police investigating the suspected murder of four people in the canton of Aargau one week ago have involved international forces in the search for leads.
Swiss NBA star Thabo Sefolosha insisted on Wednesday that he was targeted with unjustified police violence after an incident outside a night club, at his trial for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Seven Swiss resident Muslims who came to lay flowers outside the US embassy in Bern in memory of the three Chapel Hill murder victims were “intimidated” by a police identity check, the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) has said.
