Sensitive: Police assisting a woman who emergency personnel have rescued from the collapsed Pyne Gould Corporation building. She has been wrapped in an emergency blanket. Emergency personnel have been using the crane basket she is leaving to find and evacuate people from the wreckage.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The police station viewed from the top of the BNZ building in Cathedral Square".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to The Painted Room on Colombo Street. The roof has collapsed into the building, damaging the front wall and breaking the glass windows. Wire fencing and police tape have been placed around the building as a cordon.
Buildings seen through the cordon fence from Cathedral Square. From left to right are MFL House, the Forsyth Barr building, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers building, the Camelot Hotel and the Cathedral Square Police Station.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Bradley Nuttall building, over police wall. Central city".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Bradley Nuttall building, over police wall. Central city".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hereford Street bridge (centre)".
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of shops on Westminster Street in St Albans. Bricks and other rubble from the buildings have been piled on the footpath. Wire fencing, road cones and police tape have been placed around the buildings as a cordon.
A member of the New Zealand Police with an injured man, rescued from the collapsed PGC building. The man's head has been wrapped in bandages.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Police and crowds watching the demolition of the Manchester Courts building".
A police officer stepping over camera equipment in front of the damaged Repertory Theatre building.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Police and crowds watching the demolition of the Manchester Courts building".
The damaged Villa Antiques building in Merivale, cordoned off with police and civil defence tape.
A graffiti-style advertisement for the NZ Police on the side of a building on Colombo Street, showing a police officer comforting a frightened woman. Text reads "You too can do something extraordinary. Become a cop".
A police officer and soldier talk with a demolition contractor on Victoria Street. Tape has been placed across the street to create a temporary cordon. In the distance, a pile of rubble from a demolished building can be seen.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "View centered on the Millennium Hotel in Cathedral Square".
An aerial photograph of the central city blocks bounded by Colombo Street, Hereford Street, Cashel Street, and High Street.
Damage to buildings down Victoria Street. Members of the public have walked inside the police tape cordon to have a look at the damaged buildings and bricks across the road.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 25 February 2011 showing damage to the Lyttelton Police Station on Sumner Road and London Street. Photograph taken looking west from St Davids Street. In December 2011, the New Zealand Police decided that the Lyttelton Police Station would be demolished. The building, which opened in 1882 was re...
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking along Hereford Street to the Vero building and Police headquarters beyond".
The site of the Robert Falcon Scott statue. Here is what it looked like before (lining up ICE from POLICE on the Police building)
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A digger working on the remains of Gough House with the fragile remains of the wooden heritage building, Shands Emporium (one of Christchurch's oldest retail buildings), still standing on Hereford Street".
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch Central City. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central city blocks bounded by Colombo Street, Hereford Street, Cashel Street and High Streets".
A photograph of street art on the wall of a building on Colombo Street. The artwork is by Otis Frizzell and depicts police officer Constable Nao Yoshimizu comforting the grieving relative of an earthquake victim. Constable Yoshimizu acted as liaison officer for the families of Japanese victims of the earthquake. The mural was commissioned by the New Zealand Police as a recruitment advertisement.
A photograph looking south down Manchester towards the intersection of Lichfield Street. In the distance members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team are standing next to a police car on Lichfield Street. Behind this there is a group of earthquake-damaged buildings which have spilled rubble onto Manchester Street. An excavator is parked on top of this rubble.
A photograph of a pile of fallen bricks lying in between two buildings. Police tape has been placed across the alleyway. An open rubbish bin can be seen under the bricks, full of organic material.
A photograph of a pile of fallen bricks lying in between two buildings. Police tape has been placed across the alleyway. An open rubbish bin can be seen under the bricks, full of organic material.
A photograph of traffic leaving Lichfield Street taken from the intersection with Manchester Street shortly after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A police officer is directing a crowd of people who have evacuated from buildings in the central city.
A photograph of graffiti on a building on the corner of Colombo Street and Peterborough Street. Originally a recruitment advertisement for the police, the image has been altered and the words, "You can paint, but we can't!" added.
A photograph of graffiti on a building on the corner of Colombo Street and Peterborough Street. Originally a recruitment advertisement for the police, the image has been altered and the words, "You can paint, but we can't!" added.