Soldiers are on standby for armed police after scores of Metropolitan Police officers stood down from firearms duties following a murder charge against one of their colleagues.

Public have 'absolutely' nothing to worry about amid armed police walkout, minister tells LBC

Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said armed police officers fear legal action in a new open letter after a serving cop was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.

Met chief backs armed police over Chris Kaba protest as army set to step in

Army support has been offered to the Met after a protest following an armed police officer being charged with the murder of Chris Kaba

MoD offers armed officers to Met as Braverman backs firearms cops who hand in weapons after Chris Kaba murder charge

An armed police officer has been charged with the murder of Chris Kaba

Braverman backs armed cops who hand in weapons after officer charged with Chris Kaba murder

An armed police officer has been charged with the murder of Chris Kaba

Armed cops in Met Police hand in weapons in protest after officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba

A murder investigation is underway after a stabbing in Jubilee Park, Bromley

Detectives appeal for witnesses after teenager fatally stabbed in leafy south east London neighbourhood

Police are hunting a grey XL Bully (stock image)

Police hunt grey XL Bully and owner after man mauled by dog in south London

The thieves took off in a Mini with several items from a DPD van

Shocking footage shows brazen thieves stealing parcels from DPD van in east London

A woman died in the hit-and-run collision in Hackney

Woman cyclist, 36, killed in east London hit-and-run as police hunt occupants of car who fled scene

The man scaled the Cheessegrater on Friday morning

Topless man arrested after climbing London’s 225m skyscraper the Cheesegrater

Sadiq Khan has said he is 'happy' to meet with union officials ahead of two days of strike action next month

Sadiq Khan 'happy' to meet with Mick Lynch ahead of October Tube strikes but negotiations will be 'between the RMT and TfL'
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A member of Sadiq Khan's London Policing Board previously called to "overthrow" the Conservative government through force, and has labelled the Met as "deeply insidious, racist, misogynistic, immoral and a threat to society and a cancer"

Cronies or critics? Doubts raised over Sadiq Khan's hand-picked police watchdogs

West Ham stadium was flooded with rain.

Torrential rain ‘floods’ West Ham stadium and Stratford shopping centre as capital hit by heavy downpour

A Ulez camera van was ticketed

Ulez camera van given parking ticket after eagle-eyed driver spots it parked illegally in south London

Six men are on trial at the Old Bailey variously accused of murder, kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice over the death of radio DJ Mehmet Koray Alpergin

Popular DJ tortured to death by ‘sadistic thugs’ who locked his girlfriend in a toilet for two days, court told

Google is being sued by the family of a man who drove off a collapsed bridge

Family of man who drove off collapsed bridge sues Google Maps for 'misguiding him to death'

A murder investigation is underway after a stabbing in Jubilee Park, Bromley

Murder investigation launched after stabbing in south east London

Footage appears to show a security guard monitoring the mobile Ulez camera

'TfL hire private security' to monitor mobile Ulez cameras after weeks of damage by vandals