NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY CHAPTER 5: GOALS AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES The NSP provides the mission that every Government institution must accomplish to build the foundation for the realization of our security vision by 2022. It provides a roadmap on how to protect and enhance our national interests and promotes the adoption of transparent, unified and measurable set of approaches for its effective and sustainable implementation. By building on the gains of reform initiatives undertaken by previous administrations, the NSP identifies national security priorities based on a realistic and proactive assessment of the risks and opportunities in the domestic and global security environment, which is constantly in a state of flux. The following goals and strategic objectives shall be pursued by every man and woman in the Government, along with the people in the private sector, to secure the Filipino nation. STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SAFETY, LAW AND ORDER, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE The general public must be secured and protected from any harm that could endanger their lives, properties, and ways of life. The Government is primarily accountable to the people and must ensure that a just, stable and peaceful society is achieved. When internal peace and stability exist, both public and private institutions can extend the reach of governance and development to all Filipinos. Strategic Objectives: (1) Launch holistic programs to combat illegal drugs, criminality, corruption, terrorism and transnational crimes. (2) Strengthen and institute reforms to the five pillars of the criminal justice system (i.e. law enforcement, community). (3) Empower citizen’s implementation the courts, prosecution, organizations of public to policies, actively in correctional participate cultivating institutions, in governance, a culture of peace, and the in the and in safeguarding the safety of the people. (4) Pursue the enactment of peace and security legislations that would strengthen security sector governance and peace-building efforts of the Government. 19|Page