Elizabeth Street, Sydney: Major police operation underway

A major operation is underway in the Sydney’s CBD which involved the mass evacuation of office workers and police. 

Police swarmed the busy office tower on Elizabeth Street sometime after 1pm on Wednesday.

The building is understood to house the offices of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and other police services.

Photos from the scene show multiple police vehicles parked in the busy street as officers guarded the entrances and exits of the building, which has been roped off.

Federal police and the riot squad are also in attendance.

A paramedic was seen heading into the building wheeling a stretcher. 

Paramedics were spotted wheeling a stretcher into the office tower

‘Huge numbers of police cars (marked and unmarked), police bikes and officers on foot responding to what appeared to be an incident on Elizabeth St in the Sydney CBD,’ one man posted on X.

Another said that the entire building had been locked out.

‘Massive police operation in Sydney CBD locking out whole building,’ he wrote. 

NSW Police has confirmed an operation remains in place but was unable to provide further detail.

‘There is no threat to the public, a spokesman told Daily Mail Australia.

Multiple emergency crews responded to the incident.

Police officers were seen standing guard at the building’s entrance

The cordoned off office tower houses offices of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and other police services. Pictured are officers at the scene

‘I saw about five or six cop cars,’ a nearby hotel worker told Daily Mail Australia.

‘We heard that a building had been locked down from the news’.

A convenience store owner added: ‘We saw some cops cars going down the street’.

‘There was an ambulance going by as well.’

The police operation is not far from where a lawyer was allegedly shot inside his ninth storey office last week. 

A major police operation shut down part of Elizabeth Street in the Sydney CBD on Wednesday