The head of the Swiss Armed Forces, André Blattmann, has warned against cutbacks in the military amid a heightened threat of terrorism around the world.
The Swiss attorney general has opened a criminal investigation of a leading member in a Swiss Muslim organisation accused of violating a ban on jihadist groups, the attorney general's office said on Saturday.
The Swiss government said on Friday it was creating 86 new positions dedicated to combatting terrorism as additional resources were needed to effectively investigate and contain increased security threats.
Five platforms at Geneva’s main train station were evacuated on Wednesday after a large black bag was left in the zone for trains departing to and arriving from France.
Cyber attacks and abductions of Swiss abroad were two of the main security challenges faced by Switzerland last year, according to a government report.
Switzerland needs 1,500 more police officers to deal with foreign gangs and rising cases of burglaries and thefts, according to the working group of the conference for cantonal justice and police ministers.
Espionage posing a security threat to Switzerland was uncovered through the discovery of undisclosed data stolen by a government IT worker, says Michael Lauber, the country’s attorney general.
<p>Security officers patrolling Swiss trains will carry firearms from the summer of 2012 in a bid to halt rising violence against ticket controllers, the rail service SBB said Thursday.</p>
<p>The Swiss government on Monday said it was "preoccupied" by the security situation in Geneva, a city more famed for its chocolate and banking than for high levels of criminality.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swiss Defence Minister Ueli Maurer has warned that there are major loopholes in Switzerland’s cyber security, as hacker attacks increase worldwide.</span></span></p>
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