Muthyala Stephen Raveendra(ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర ) (born 14 February 1973) is the present Police commissioner of

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since from 25 August 2021. He was earlier,

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of West Zone (Hyderabad and Nizamabad Ranges) also holding full additional charge as

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(Hyderabad Range) Raveendra is a 1999 batch Regular Recruit (52RR) of the

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who got trained at the

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and was inducted into the

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on 20 September 1999. Raveendra was the West Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police. and was DIG in the elite special forces of

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. In 2015,

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Early life, schooling and collegiate studies

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M. B. Ranjit who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police. Raveendra was schooled at St. Paul's High School, Little Flower Junior College and

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, all in Hyderabad. He passed out of Nizam College in 1994 and then entered the portals of Department of Zoology at the University College of Science,

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. There were learned

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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 passed out of the learned portals of the University in 1996. After post-graduate studies at Department of Zoology,

where he received a gold medal in

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, he cleared the

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entrance and opted for IPS and underwent training at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.

Career

Raveendra's initial posting was in

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where he was groomed by Damodar Gautam Sawang, then the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range. Incidentally,

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happened to be the Director General and Inspector General of Police of

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when Raveendra was in

. The colleagueship of ''Swaranjit-Sawang-Stephen'' helped in containing the terrorist tactics of Naxalites. In the past sometime in 2019, it was indicated that Stephen Raveendra has been tipped to be the new Intelligence Chief of

w.e.f 30 May. Moves by the incumbent Chief Minister, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to his neighbouring counterpart,

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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.

Achievements

So far in Raveendra's career he has encountered Naxalism (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption (as SP-in-Karimnagar), RegionalismTimes of India, 19 January 2010.

Internet, accessed 21 July 2011. (as DCP-in-East Zone) and eradicated drugs from Hyderabad city. (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. The problem of drugs is under current debate so much that the former Commissioner of Police, A. K. Khan (police officer), A. K. Khan, even addressed a seminar conducted at the Centre for Economic Studies in Hyderabad on the topic "War on Drugs" 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 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

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's then Commissioner of Police

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and Deputy Commissioner of Police Y. C. Pawar who also waged a war on drugs during their tenures in the mid eighties.Mid Day, 30 July 2010. Julio Ribeiro and Y. C. Pawar waged a war on ganglords who were also involved in drug trafficking.

Internet, accessed 25 July 2011.

References

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