Organization

The Federal Department of Justice and Police has a wide range of responsabilities. It deals with socio-political issues such as the co-existence of Swiss and foreign nationals, asylum matters, internal security and the fight against crime. Marital status and citizenship issues are also just as much part of the FDJP's brief as corporate governance, gaming supervision, or the drafting of codes and instruments for international legal assistance and police cooperation.

From left to right: Nicoletta della Valle, Director fedpol; Michael Schöll, Director FOJ; Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter; Christine Schraner Burgener, State Secretary for Migration
© FDJP / Keystone / Alessandro della Valle

General Secretariat FDJP

The General Secretariat creates the conditions that allow the Head of Department, Karin Keller-Sutter, to fulfil her tasks within the government and vis-à-vis the public. In other words, it initiates, plans and coordinates the department's activities and prepares the material that is to form the basis for decisions that have to be taken on government, parliamentary or deparmental business. The General Secretariat supports the departmental offices in the planning and the achievement of their objectives.

Federal Offices

• Federal Office of Justice FOJ
• State Secretariat for Migration SEM
• Federal Office of Police (fedpol)

Institutes

• Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property IPI
• Swiss Institute of Comparative Law SICL
• Federal Institute of Metrology METAS

Commissions

• The Federal Commission on Migration FCM

Administratively attached to the FDJP

• Federal Audit Oversight Authority

Federal Commission for the Assessment of the Treatability of Offenders subject to Lifelong Incarceration

Links

• Services

Last modification 03.05.2022