“I’m delighted that we are leading the way towards tackling misogyny in all its forms,” said Nottinghamshire Police's Ch Con Sue Fish on Wednesday. “It’s a very important aspect of the overall hate crime work being conducted and one that will make Nottinghamshire a safer place for all women. What women face, often a daily basis, is absolutely unacceptable and can be extremely depressing.”

The Guardian suggests that this definition could be broad enough include wolf-whistling – citing as a precedent the police investigation of a building firm last year, after a 23-year-old woman reported the company’s employees for whistling at her.

Despite how that case was widely reported at the time, Poppy Smart did not go to Worcestershire police after ‘just’ one incident of wolf-whistling. Rather, she endured a month of taunts, sexual comments, whistles and physical intimidation from the men on her way to work – behaviour that would appear to meet Nottinghamshire Police’s new criteria for misogynistic hate incidents.

Police in England to record misogyny as a hate crime against women