{"id":513608,"date":"2026-04-05T03:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:45:22","slug":"london-police-investigate-weapons-outside-mayors-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513608\/","title":{"rendered":"London police investigate weapons outside mayor’s home"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 London police are urgently investigating how armed protection officers guarding Mayor Sadiq Khan<\/a> 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 carbine, a Glock pistol, Taser and ammunition, were found in south London Tuesday by a couple, who then informed the Metropolitan Police.<\/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":513609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,232,57,58,179524,18584,50,229,14751,56,54,14990,55,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-513608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-jordan-griffiths","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-sadiq-khan","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-united-kingdom-government","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}