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Primary schools should teach boys about the boundaries of acceptable behaviour as part of a 'whole society' approach to tackling misogyny, a senior police officer has said.    

Maggie Blyth, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for violence against women and girls, said children should learn about the risks of sharing explicit images online and the danger of toxic influencers such as Andrew Tate. 

The officer argued it was time for teachers to focus on finding ways to stop boys becoming future predators rather than leaving the issue to police.  

'I think there's so much more that must and should be done at primary school into secondary about boys' behaviour, and what boys feel they get away with,' she told The Times. 

'The exacerbated risk around Instagram and Snapchat, where behaviour goes on online that is unchecked — sharing of images, pornography, misogyny. The whole Andrew Tate line is really grave.'