A UK regional police chief has promised Tasers for all his frontline police after one of his officers was attacked on duty and narrowly escaped with his life. Nick Adderley, the chief constable of Northamptonshire police, made the pledge on Monday after the officer was saved from being strangled to death when a colleague deployed a Taser on his assailant. “Over the weekend a Northants officer was forced to the ground and strangled to the point that they nearly lost consciousness,” Adderley wrote on Twitter. “Due to the size of the offender, strikes proved ineffective, PAVA [pepper-like spray] was also ineffective. Thank goodness his colleague had Taser, which saved his life.” “The argument of ‘necessity’ to issue [a] Taser to every officer who wants one, ends right here,” Adderley wrote in a separate tweet. “Today I may well have been speaking to the next of kin of my officer, delivering …