Five officers removed from duty after ‘leaving bag of guns outside Mayor of London’s home’ for scaffolder to find

Five police officers have been taken off duty after a bag of guns was found outside Sadiq Khan’s home.

Armed officers assigned to protect the Mayor of London reportedly left multiple guns and ammunition outside of his south London residence.

The bag contained an MP5 semi-automatic Heckler & Koch carbine, a Glock pistol, a Taser, and various rounds of ammunition.

They were discovered by member of the public Jordan

He told The Sun: ‘I could not believe my eyes and took some pictures as proof of what we had found.

‘I called the police and told them what I had found and within a few minutes they turned up to collect the guns.

‘When they arrived they were really shocked. They looked through the bag carefully and hurriedly took them away.

‘I was told they had been left there by one of Sadiq Khan’s security officers, which made sense as he lives here.’

The Metropolitan Police said: ‘At around 9.40pm, a member of the public called police after finding a bag containing Met-issued firearms and a Taser on a street in south London.

‘Within seven minutes of the call to police, officers arrived at the scene and safely recovered the items.

‘We are urgently reviewing the circumstances of this incident and recognize the concern it may cause.

‘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.

‘We recognize the concern this may cause and an internal review was immediately launched into the circumstances.’

A spokesperson for Mayor of London Sir Sadiq said: ‘This is a very serious incident, which has been referred to the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards.

‘The Met must now take all steps to ensure an incident like this never occurs again.’