Background
Officer Raveendra is the son of an illustrious Police Officer Digital signal processing M. B. Ranjit who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police.
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Career
Raveendra was the West Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police. and now is DIG in the elite special forces of Greyhounds. In 2015, Raveendra was a resource person at the Strategic Gaming Exercise on Left Wing Extremism held by the United Service Institution, New Delhi. Raveendra was schooled at Saint Paul"s High School, Little Flower Junior College and Nizam College, all in Hyderabad.
Raveendra"s initial posting was in Warangal District where he was groomed by Damodar Gautam Sawang who was at that time Deputy Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range.
Incidentally, Noel Swaranjit Senator happened to be the Director General and Inspector General of Police of Andhra Pradesh when Raveendra was in Warangal District. The colleagueship of Swaranjit-Sawang-Stephen helped in containing the terrorist tactics of Naxalites.
Achievements
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So far in Raveendra"s career he has encountered Naxalism (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption (as SP-in-Karimangar), Regionalism (as Defined contribution plan-in-East Zone) and presently erdicated Drugs from Hyderabad city. (as Defined contribution plan-in-West Zone) and fought naxal terrorist violence as Group Commander (Ops) GreyHounds 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 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 Meda Likewise, he was awarded Gallantary 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.
