His tenure lasted 14 years and commanded great respect among the public for his outstanding police administration.

[citation needed] As a city police commissioner, he also headed the Baldia in Ex-Officio cadre.

He introduced a weekly special sanitation programme in all streets, through which it was possible to see the clean city every Friday morning.

[citation needed] Venkatram Reddy serving at Raichur, Wahab, the caretaker died suddenly.

Venkatram stayed on at Raichur and became a ward of Wahab’s successor, a Pathan named Nazar Muhammad Khan.

While working at Nizamabad, he helped trace a British deserter from the army and was given a reward of eleven rupees.

[citation needed] When Nawab Imad Jung Bahadur became the Kotwal of Hyderabad, he asked Venkatram to be appointed as his First Assistant.

[citation needed] He worked in that capacity for six years and instituted many reforms in the city police.

He also ensured peace at the Ganesh procession by making four policemen the bearers of the palanquin carrying the idol.

In the 1931 New Year Honours, Reddy was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

When Raja Bahadur Venkatarama Reddy passed away in 1953, he had only thirty rupees in cash on his person.

The son, Laxma Reddy did Bar-at Law, married two English ladies one after another and became a judge of the High Court.