{"id":870833,"date":"2026-04-04T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:58:17","slug":"armed-police-officers-left-bag-of-guns-outside-sadiq-khans-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870833\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police officers left bag of guns outside Sadiq Khan&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/skynews-sir-sadiq-khan-london-mayor_7072878.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Armed police officers guarding London mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home, it has emerged.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">Five people have now been temporarily suspended from frontline duties while an investigation takes place.<\/p>\n<p>A Heckler &amp; Koch submachine gun, a Glock pistol, a Taser and ammunition were reportedly inside the bag.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police&#8217;s Directorate of Professional Standards has confirmed it is reviewing what happened.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it said: &#8220;A member of the public called police after finding a bag containing Met-issued firearms and a Taser on a street in south London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within seven minutes of the call to police, officers arrived at the scene and safely recovered the items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage it is believed the bag was misplaced by on-duty officers a short time before the member of the public located it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 9.40pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Boy, 14, shot dead in London<br \/>Sadiq Khan takes a swipe at Trump<br \/>Three charged over arson attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Griffiths told <strong>The Sun<\/strong> that his pregnant partner found the bag by the kerb, adding: &#8220;I could not believe my eyes. There was a handgun in the front pocket and a submachine gun in the main part of the bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scaffolder said he called police, who came to collect the holdall quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they arrived they were really shocked &#8230; I was told they had been left there by one of Sadiq Khan&#8217;s security officers, which made sense as he lives here,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the mayor said: &#8220;This is a very serious incident, which has been referred to the Met&#8217;s Directorate of Professional Standards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Met must now take all steps to ensure an incident like this never occurs again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/skynews_2018-small.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" style=\"width:85px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                (c) Sky News 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/armed-police-officers-left-bag-of-guns-outside-sadiq-khans-home-13527800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed police officers left bag of guns outside Sadiq Khan&#8217;s home<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police officers guarding London mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home, it has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,257,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-870833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-london","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-online","24":"tag-radio","25":"tag-sport","26":"tag-stourbridge","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116344672047303032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}