Stephen Raveendra Explained

Birth Name:Mutyala Stephen Raveendra
Birth Date:14 February,[1] 1973[2]
Education:B. Sc.[3] (Osmania) - 1994,
M. Sc. (Osmania) - 1996
Alma Mater:
Known For:Uprightness and impeccable track record
Spouse:Smt. Vineela-Raveendra
Relations:
Service:Telangana Police Cadre[5]
Country: India
Serviceyears:1999 - Present
Status:Additional Director General of Police, Greyhounds
Rank:Additional Director General of Police,[6]
Badge:19991022[7]
Awards:
  • 2004, Antrik Suraksha Seva Padak,
  • 2005, Police Medal for Gallantry,[8]
  • 2010, Prime Minister's Police Medal for Life Saving[9]
  • 2016, President's Police Medal[10]

Muthyala Stephen Raveendra (ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర, born 14 February 1973[3])[1] is Additional Director General of Police, Greyhounds, Telangana Police, appointed on 10 July 2024. In the past, he was Police commissioner of Cyberabad Metropolitan Police from 25 August 2021 through 12 December 2023,[11] and Inspector General of Police of West Zone (Hyderabad and Nizamabad Ranges) also holding full additional charge as Deputy Inspector General of Police (Hyderabad Range)

Raveendra is a 1999 batch Regular Recruit (52RR) of the Indian Police Service who got trained at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, India and was inducted into the IPS on 20 September 1999.[1] Raveendra was the West Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police.[12] and was DIG in the elite special forces of Greyhounds.[13] In 2015,[14] Raveendra was a resource person at the Strategic Gaming Exercise on Left Wing Extremism held by the United Service Institution, New Delhi.[14]

Early life, schooling and collegiate studies

Officer Raveendra is the son of an illustrious Police Officer[15] DSP M. B. Ranjit[15] who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police. Raveendra was schooled at St. Paul's High School,[16] Little Flower Junior College[15] and Nizam College,[3] [15] all in Hyderabad. He graduated from Nizam College in 1994[3] and then entered the portals of Department of Zoology at the University College of Science, Osmania University. There were learned Entomologists comprising Professors S.S.Thakur, B. Julius Divakar, P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao and others. Stephen was enthused by Entomology and specialized in it and graduated from the learned portals of the University in 1996.[3]

After post-graduate studies at Department of Zoology,[3] Osmania University[15] where he received a gold medal in Zoology, he cleared the Union Public Service Commission entrance and opted for IPS and underwent training at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.[1]

Career

Raveendra's initial posting was in Warangal District where he was groomed[17] by Damodar Gautam Sawang, the then Deputy Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range.[18] Incidentally, Noel Swaranjit Sen happened to be the Director General and Inspector General of Police of Andhra Pradesh when Raveendra was in Warangal District.[19] The colleagueship of Swaranjit-Sawang-Stephen[20] helped in containing the terrorist tactics of Naxalites.

In the past, sometime in 2019, it was indicated that Stephen Raveendra has been tipped[21] to be the new Intelligence Chief of Andhra Pradesh w.e.f 30 May.[22] Moves by the incumbent Chief Minister, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to his neighbouring counterpart, K. Chandrashekar Rao point towards this direction and steps seem to have been made at the Centre to quickly move the files and get the Officer on deputation from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh.[23]

Achievements

So far in Raveendra's career he has encountered Naxalism[24] (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism[25] (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption[26] (as SP-in-Karimnagar), Regionalism[27] (as DCP-in-East Zone) and eradicated drugs from Hyderabad city.[28] (as DCP-in-West Zone)

The areas under the jurisdiction of West Zone are in the news due to frequent arrests of persons possessing drugs.[29] The problem of drugs is under current debate so much that the former Commissioner of Police, A. K. Khan, even addressed a seminar conducted at the Centre for Economic Studies in Hyderabad on the topic "War on Drugs"[30] where Officer Raveendra was also present .Mr.Raveendra in a dare-devil act of self-less courage saved the lives of 61 patients who were trapped in a fire accident[31] in a hospital for which he was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Life saving Medal. Likewise, he was awarded Gallantry medal for high-risk anti-extremist operations.

Parallels may be drawn between the colleagueship of Commissioner of Police A. K. Khan and Deputy Commissioner of Police Raveendra to Mumbai's then Commissioner of Police Julio Francis Ribeiro and Deputy Commissioner of Police Y. C. Pawar who also waged a war on drugs during their tenures in the mid eighties.[32]

Notes and References

  1. National Police Academy, Hyderabad – IPS Directory. Web site: Sardar vallabhbhai patel national police academy . 2010-01-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220145805/http://www.svpnpa.gov.in/ipssearch.aspx . 20 February 2012 . dmy-all . . Internet, accessed 20 July 2011.
  2. Web site: Ministry of Home Affairs . 26 December 2015 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104049/http://mha1.nic.in/pdfs/Empanl_IPS_230813.pdf . dead .
  3. https://policeservicemedals.gov.in/ips_ersheet_new/ERSheet1.aspx Indian Police Service Executive Records
  4. Cyberabad CP Stephen Raveendra's father passes away, Deccan Chronicle, October 26, 2023 https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/261023/cyberabad-cp-stephen-raveendras-father-passes-away.html
  5. http://persmin.gov.in/ais1/docs/aptg-ips_AsOn_10Oct2014.pdf Government of India
  6. [Telangana Police]
  7. https://policeservicemedals.gov.in/ips_ersheet_new/ERSheet1.aspx IPS Executive Record Sheet, M. Stephen Raveendra
  8. http://pib.nic.in/archieve/image/2005/r2005081503.pdf List of Awardees of Gallantry Medals on Independence Day 2005
  9. 3 HYDERABAD COPS TO GET PM MEDAL FOR BRAVERY, Siasat Daily, 24 January 2016.http://archive.siasat.com/news/3-hyderabad-cops-get-pm-medal-bravery-247517/
  10. Two from Telangana get President’s medal, Times of India, 26 January 2016.http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/Two-from-Telangana-get-President%E2%80%99s-medal/article14020666.ece
  11. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/3-police-commissioners-of-greater-hyderabad-transferred/ar-AA1lnr1H?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=25c295fecc314af0bdeadf4e6a08a0c4&ei=9 The Statesman, 12 December 2023
  12. http://www.hyderabadpolice.gov.in/Contact%20Us/WestZone.htm Hyderabad City Police
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20150227115640/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra_pradesh/26-IPS-officers-transferred-some-promoted/2013/07/03/article1665061.ece News Report on Transfers of IPS Officers
  14. [United Service Institution]
  15. http://www.reachouthyderabad.com/newsmaker/nm25.htm Maju Kuriakose, Reachout, November 2000
  16. St. Paul's High School Alumni. http://www.stpaulsalumnihyd.com/showdetail.php?ur=MTY0OA==. Internet, accessed 21 July 2011.
  17. [Damodar Gautam Sawang]
  18. United Nations Mission in Liberia. http://unmil.org/2content.asp?third=57&sub=24&pgt=3. Internet, accessed 21 July 2011.
  19. Cf. Wikipedia article on Noel Swaranjit Sen
  20. [Cf.]
  21. Stephen Ravindra to Appoint As AP New Intelligence Chief, 27 May 2019.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPET2b0KBA
  22. Mahesh Buddi, Telangana IG Stephen set to be Intel chief of AP, to start work on May 30, Times News Network, 28 May 2019.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/telangana-ig-stephen-set-to-be-intel-chief-of-ap-to-start-work-on-may-30/articleshow/69528262.cms
  23. Yanadi Reddy, IG Stephen Raveendra reportedly to be the new Intelligence Chief of Andhra Pradesh in Hans News Service, 27 May 2019.https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/ig-stephen-raveendra-reportedly-to-be-the-new-intelligence-chief-of-andhra-pradesh-532713
  24. Times of India, 16 September 2006.https://web.archive.org/web/20120915014252/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-09-16/hyderabad/27829693_1_naxalites-warangal-district-encounter. Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  25. The Hindu, 25 March 2008.https://web.archive.org/web/20080327201235/http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/25/stories/2008032553560400.htm Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  26. The Hindu, 31 July 2009. See last paragraph on pressure from ruling political party on transfers.https://web.archive.org/web/20121110071623/http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/31/stories/2009073152100300.htm Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  27. Times of India, 19 January 2010. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/PDATOI/articleshow/5475072.cms. Internet, accessed 21 July 2011.
  28. Times of India, 24 July 2011.https://web.archive.org/web/20110907071952/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-24/news-interviews/29809381_1_tollywood-celebs-drug-bust-racket Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  29. Zee News 24, 21 August 2010. http://www.znews24.com/drugs-racket-rocked-tollywood.html Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  30. Siasat 3 July 2011. http://www.siasat.com/english/news/it%E2%80%99s-every-citizen%E2%80%99s-duty-strive-against-evils-k-khan Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.
  31. Bharat Kumar, What are some of the stories depicting positive image of the police in India?https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-stories-depicting-positive-image-of-the-police-in-India
  32. Mid Day, 30 July 2010. Julio Ribeiro and Y. C. Pawar waged a war on ganglords who were also involved in drug trafficking. http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/jul/300710-varadarajan-mudaliar-tamil-don-mumbai-underworld.htm Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.

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