{"id":582936,"date":"2026-04-05T02:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:31:29","slug":"uk-police-investigate-after-officers-left-guns-outside-mayors-home-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582936\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police investigate after officers left guns outside mayor\u2019s home \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police are urgently investigating how armed protection officers guarding Mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement late Friday that five officers had been removed from front-line duties while inquiries were being carried out.<\/p>\n

The weapons cache, which according to The Sun newspaper included an MP5 semiautomatic Heckler & Koch \u00adcarbine, a Glock pistol, Taser and ammunition, were found in south London Tuesday by a couple, who then informed the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFILE – Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks during an interview in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)<\/p>\n

Scaffolder Jordan Griffiths told the newspaper that his girlfriend found the bag by the curbside and said that he was in \u201cshock\u201d after discovering what was inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not believe my eyes and took some pictures as proof of what we had found,\u201d he said. \u201cI called the police and told them what I had found and within a few minutes they turned up to collect the guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police Directorate of Professional Standards is reviewing what happened and confirmed that five officers have been removed from front-line duties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are urgently reviewing the circumstances of this incident and recognize the concern it may cause,\u201d it said in a statement. \u201cAt this stage it is believed the bag was misplaced by on-duty officers a short time before the member of the public located it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the mayor said the police \u201cmust now take all steps to ensure an incident like this never occurs again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police are urgently investigating how armed protection officers guarding Mayor Sadiq Khan left a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-582936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}