Stephen Raveendra
Indian police chief
Muthyala Stephen Raveendra (ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర, born 14 February 1973) is Additional Director General of Police, Greyhounds, Telangana Police, appointed on 10 July 2024. In the past, he was Police commissioner of Cyberabad Metropolitan Police from 25 August 2021 through 12 December 2023, and Inspector General of Police of West Zone (Hyderabad and Nizamabad Ranges) also holding full additional charge as Deputy Inspector General of Police (Hyderabad Range)
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.
Early life, schooling and collegiate studies
Officer Raveendra is the son of an illustrious Police Officer DSP M. B. Ranjit who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police. Raveendra was schooled at St. Paul's High School, Little Flower Junior College and Nizam College, all in Hyderabad. He graduated from Nizam College in 1994 and then entered the portals of Department of Zoology at the University College of Science, Osmania University. There were learned Entomologists comprising Professors S.S.Thakur, B. Julius Divakar, P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao and others.
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