Kothakota Srinivas Reddy is New Hyderabad Commissioner of Police

Hyderabad: Taking forward his intent to provide clean governance, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday picked senior police officials Kothakota Srinivas Reddy and Avinash Mohanty to head the crucial Hyderabad and Cyberabad police commissionerates.

G. Sudheer Babu, a 2001 batch IPS officer serving as additional police commissioner, traffic, Hyderabad, was posted as the Rachakonda police commissioner,

While the core capital city falls under Hyderabad, the surrounding areas including the IT corridor comes under the Cyberabad police limits. Both Srinivas Reddy  and Mohanty are known for their integrity and straightforward approach and were kept in loop line by the previous BRS government. The two officials will assume charge on Wednesday.

Incumbent city commissioner Sandeep Shandilya was posted as full-time director of Telangana State Anti-Narcotics Bureau (TS NAB), which till now was under the Hyderabad police commissioner.

A 1994 batch additional DGP rank officer, Srinivas Reddy served as Mahbubnagar district superintendent of police and later headed the elite anti-Maoist force Greyhounds where he redefined training modules and intensified combing operations.

With this, the Telangana police not only succeeded in keeping Maoists at bay but also in driving them out of the state boundaries to a larger extent.

Srinivas Reddy also protected hundreds of acres of government land allotted to the Greyhounds when land sharks made attempts to grab it. He took personal interest in pursuing the litigation in the Supreme Court which ruled in favour of the government and barred any other court from entertaining any litigation on the land.

It was during his stint that the Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (Octopus), the Telangana police counter terrorism wing, was brought into deal with offenders in a property offence. Octopus was also roped in to flush out armed offenders, suspected to be hiding in a residential apartment after a failed attempt to rob a Muthoot Finance branch at Mailardevpally in August 2017. He has gathered expertise in traffic management during after his stint as DCP Traffic, Hyderabad.

Avinash Mohanty, a 2005 batch officer has been posted as CP Cyberabad. He is presently joint commissioner of police, administration, at Cyberabad and succeeds M. Stephen Raveendra who was asked to report to the DGP office.

Mohanty had earlier worked in Cyberabad as DCP Traffic, and then as DCP, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad. It was during his tenure that the Hyderabad police cracked down on online micro loan app cases and traced their roots to China. He handled the sensational Karvy stock broking scam.

G. Sudheer Babu, a 2001 batch officer serving as additional police commissioner, traffic, Hyderabad, has been posted as the Rachakonda police commissioner, replacing D.S. Chauhan. Sudheer Babu has earlier worked as DCP Task Force, Hyderabad City, the Warangal police commissioner and Rachakonda joint police commissioner. During his stint with the task force and in Warangal, he had left a mark in improving the policing.