Stephen Raveendra(??????? ???????? ??????? ) (born 14 February 1973) is the present Inspector General of Police of Hyderabad Range also holding full additional charge as Deputy Inspector General of Police with his office situated in Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad.Preliminary news reports indicate that Stephen Raveendra has been tipped to be the new Intelligence Chief of Andhra Pradesh w.e.f May 30.
Moves by the incumbent Chief Minister, Y.
S.
Jaganmohan Reddy to his neighbouring counterpart, K.
Chandrashekar Rao 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.Raveendra is a 1999 batch Regular Recruit (52RR) of the Indian Police Service who got trained at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, India and was inducted into the IPS 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 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.