During the Congress regime between 2004 and 2009, he was the Chief Security Officer to former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy and is said to be closer to YSR family. kcr suggested his name to jagan so that he would be successfully combating any malicious attempts by Chandrababu Naidu like Vote for Note in early days of kcr's Previous Term.
There is a dearth of talent in AP's Intelligence Department which is evident from the several incidents like Chandrababu's Phone-Tapping, Ratnachal Express Torching, etc which have gone unnoticed until they happened. So, Stephen Ravindra's addition would strengthen the department in AP. This is kcr's way of protecting his Friend, jagan.