scope:

This guidance applies to all Service Control employees including service operator and line information specialists as well as all LUCC employees including controllers, Network Operation Managers and Senior Operating Officers. 

The guidance does not cover the situation whereby the weapon(s) are actually being used to cause mass casualties or an imminent threat to life. There is separate specific guidance G2126 "Active Shooter" and G2130 "Bladed Weapons" which cater for these extreme situations

Purpose 

This guidance document describes the actions that should be taken by London Underground (LU) staff within the Service Control Centres and the London Underground Control Centre (LUCC) in the event that they receive reports of a person or persons in possession of a weapon on board an LU train. This document seeks to formally record the process that is already in place and used extensively by the respective Control Centres in dealing with these matters.