{"id":4693,"date":"2026-04-04T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:09:58","slug":"armed-police-guarding-sadiq-khan-left-bag-of-guns-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"Armed police guarding Sadiq Khan left bag of guns outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>An investigation is underway<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Armed police who were guarding London Mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Five people have been suspended temporarily from frontline duties as an investigation into the incident takes place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>A bag discovered outside the mayor&#8217;s home was reportedly found to contain a Heckler &amp; Koch submachine gun, a Glock pistol, a Taser and ammunition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;A member of the public called police after finding a bag containing Met-issued firearms and a Taser on a street in south London,&#8221; the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s Directorate of Professional Standards said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;Within seven minutes of the call to police, officers arrived at the scene and safely recovered the items.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;At this stage it is believed the bag was misplaced by on-duty officers a short time before the member of the public located it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The Met has confirmed that it has launched an investigation into what happened. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The incident took place on Tuesday, 31 March, at around 9.40pm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Armed #police #guarding #Sadiq #Khan #left #bag #guns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway Armed police who were guarding London Mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home, it has been revealed. Five people have been suspended temporarily from frontline duties as an investigation into the incident takes place. A bag discovered outside the mayor&#8217;s home was reportedly found to contain a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4838,3032,4839,4836,3015,1512,313,4837,208,3014,4377],"class_list":{"0":"post-4693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-armed","9":"tag-bag","10":"tag-guarding","11":"tag-guns","12":"tag-khan","13":"tag-left","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-met-police","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-sadiq","18":"tag-sadiq-khan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}