A new Oireachtas committee dedicated to policing and security may be established in the New Year.
The Oireachtas Justice Committee currently scrutinises Government security policy but it has a wide-ranging remit which extends to issues such as equality, defence and women's rights.
Tanaiste and Justice Minister Michael McDowell is expected to propose to the Cabinet in coming weeks that a separate all-party body is needed to discuss legislative reform for policing and security.
Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy and senior officers will be expected to appear before the new committee at regular intervals as well as members of the new Garda Ombudsman Commission.
Sources close to the Tanaiste said that a dedicated all-party committee was essential to review progress in new policy areas such as Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) and the Garda Reserve force.
One official said: "It is unusual in a modern democracy that justice, which has its own government department, is actually lumped in with women's rights and defence at committee level.
"In the House of Commons, there is a dedicated Home Affairs Committee with a specific role and function for that area."
Reconfiguring the long-established Oireachtas Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Affairs Committee, which is chaired by Fianna Fail TD Sean Ardagh, may require legislative changes.
Setting up a dedicated all-party body on policing may also help restore public confidence in the Government's measures against organised crime, which took a battering with a recent spate in gun murders.
There have been 62 violent deaths in the Republic since January, including 26 gun-killings - the largest number in almost a decade.