Influencers radicalising boys in ‘terrifying’ way, say police

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Influencers radicalising boys in ‘terrifying’ way, say police

Online influencers like Andrew Tate are radicalising boys into extreme misogyny in a way that is “quite terrifying”, police are warning.

Senior police officer Maggie Blyth said young men and boys could be radicalised similarly to how terrorists draw in followers.

She was speaking as the National Police Chiefs Council

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, which it is calling a “national emergency”.

The NPCC estimated at least one in 12 women in England and Wales would be a victim of ********* every year – or about two million women.

And it said the problem had been growing, with “more complicated types of offending”.

Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth said officers who focused on ********* against women and ****** were now working with counter-terrorism teams to look at the risk of young men being radicalised.

Speaking about harmful content online, she said: “We know that some of this is also linked to radicalisation of young people online, we know the influencers, Andrew Tate, the element of influencing of particularly boys, is quite terrifying and that’s something that both the leads for counterterrorism in the country and ourselves from a VAWG [********* against women and ******] perspective are discussing.”

Mr Tate

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and self-proclaimed “misogynist” who rose to fame after appearing on Big Brother in 2016.

He is currently awaiting trial in Romania over allegations of *****, human trafficking and forming a ********* gang to ********* exploit women – charges he denies.

Schools across the ***

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they were encountering increasing numbers of pupils who admired Mr Tate.

The wide-ranging report by the NPCC and College of Policing published on Tuesday said ********* against women and ****** had reached “epidemic” levels.

It identified several key threats facing victims including ******* *********, domestic ******, stalking and child ******* ******.

It found there had been a 37% increase in the number of violent ******* against women and ****** between 2018 and 2023.

Police say more than a million such ******* were recorded in England and Wales last year alone, accounting for 20% of all ******* recorded by the police.

Some of the rise has been driven by an increase in reporting and more awareness of those *******.

But police chiefs say domestic ****** is growing and ******** one of the biggest demands on officers.

And it estimated that one in 20 adults – or 2.3 million people – were perpetrators of such ********* every year.

The NPCC says it creating a central hub which would offer police forces help by providing specialist knowledge and training.

The government says it welcomes the hub and

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over the next decade.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has previously made clear that ********* against women and ****** will be at the top of her agenda.

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but in their manifesto, Labour said it would introduce new specialist domestic ****** workers in 999 control rooms and put specialist ***** investigation units in every force across England and Wales so that early opportunities for prevention and protection were not missed.

This would entail more trained police officers and extra resources at a time when policing faced numerous challenges including retention and morale issues.

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