This Strategy Statement sets out the overall high-level objectives and policy goals of the Department of Justice and Equality for the period 2011 to 2014.

Tackling Human Trafficking, Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and Misuse of Drugs, including Alcohol. Action:
• Complete review of National Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Trafficking of Human Beings in Ireland 2009–2012; develop new plan
• Implement National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, 2010 to 2014
• Contribute to implementation of National Substance Misuse Strategy

Commitments under the programme for Government 2011-2016 include:
• Introduce x-ray scanners to all prisons to screen people and goods entering prisons to stop the flow of drugs and mobile telephones into prisons.
• Review will be conducted of the working of mandatory sentencing laws in the context of an overall review of drugs policy
• Reduce the flow of drugs to prisons.
• Carry out a full review of the Drug Treatment Court Programme to evaluate its success and potential in dealing with young offenders identified as having serious problem with drugs.