PETER HITCHENS: There IS a way to make our police safer - but it's NOT 50,000-volt Tasers

This is Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday column

My esteemed colleague Richard Littlejohn (we have known each other since we were industrial reporters in the late 1970s) wrote powerfully last Tuesday in the Daily Mail about the simultaneously shocking and rather inspiring case of PC Stuart Outten. 

This brave officer, thanks to great courage and resolve and the use of his Taser recently survived a terrible machete attack by Muhammad Rodwan.

There is no doubt that PC Outtens Taser saved...