In the latest incident, Gold Coast police arrested two teens on Sunday in an operation to terminate the pair’s erratic late-night jet ski jaunt through Gold Coast canals.

Gold Coast police Superintendent Rhys Wildman said rolling teams of police tracked the pair as they zoomed about the Broadbeach canal network on an allegedly stolen jet ski, finally trapping them around 11:15pm Sunday near The Star casino with a roadblock and dog squad as they came ashore.

“Police used a rolling series of officers in conjunction with Gold Coast City Council and other resources to track the Seadoo as it travelled through the canal estates,” Wildman told ABC Gold Coast.

“We set up a cordon and deployed our dog squad and located a 17 -year-old and a 16-year-old male.

“They were barefoot with sand all over their feet, which is a fair indication of what they were up to.”

The 17-year-old has been charged with dangerous operation of a vessel.

Wildman said jet ski theft was on the rise amid the current stolen vehicle teen crime spree across the south-east.

“We’ve seen an increase in jet skis being stolen,” Wildman said.

“They are an attractive item to steal. They are moored at people’s moorings here in canals on the Gold Coast or they are on trailers and they are easily able to be hooked up to a vehicle and stolen.”

He said a special police operation was targeting jet ski theft which led to the latest arrests.

It comes as groups of teens have begun co-ordinating their crime sprees as they attempt to evade police.

In the latest complex incident on October 9, police arrested seven people after a chase on both sides of the border in three stolen cars.

In the late-night operation, police stopped the first stolen car, an Audi A2 that was allegedly stolen from Tugun, using a tyre spike.

While police arrested one 15-year-old Currumbin Waters boy, other offenders jumped into a second stolen vehicle.

That car, a BMW, was tracked across the border into the Tweed before returning to Queensland.

It was abandoned back in Queensland, where four offenders jumped into a third stolen vehicle, a 2003 Holden Combo van, which was driven with police in pursuit until it was abandoned in Palm Beach and the occupants were chased by police and the dog squad.

“As they normally do, they flee like cockroaches, and we rounded up, in total, seven offenders, six males and one female. And the disappointing thing is the ages are ranging from 14 to 36,” Superintendent Craig Hanlon said after the incident.

Only a few weeks earlier, six teens were charged after another brazen spree that also involved three stolen vehicles, a police car chase between the Gold Coast and Brisbane and tracking by PolAir search and the dog squad.

When police finally cornered the youths, they fled but were found hiding behind suburban houses and one in the downstairs toilet of a Brisbane home.