1.Keep detainees in custody.

2.Maintain order, control, discipline and safe environment

3.Provide decent conditions for detainees and meet their  needs, including 

   medical care, advice on and help with personal problems.

4.Provide positive regimes which help detainees to address their offending

  behaviour and prepare them to live a full and responsible life.

5.Help towards rehabilitation of detainees.  Provide a delivery of prison  

  services using resources provided by Parliament with maximum efficiency.

6.In meeting these goals, we co-operate closely with other criminal justice

  agencies and contribute to the effectiveness and development of the      

  criminal justice system as a whole.

2.To provide a safe and healthy environment for the detainees which is  

   conducive to their rehabilitation and spiritual enhancement and vocational

   training.

3.To facilitate and safeguard ways and means for the detainees' contact with   

   outside world, i.e. spouse, children, parents and next of kin.

4.To provide the necessary structures that will be beneficial for all detainees 

   in terms of education and vocational training.

5.To apprise and sensitize the detainees on the ill effects of substance abuse

   and to empower them so that they may lead a drug-free life.

6.To provide the detainees with all the required structures for their mental and physical development through sports and games.

7.To continuously upgrade and rethink the existing physical structures of the

   prison so that they may be congruent with a healthy and peaceful  

   environment.