An Australian teenager was arrested breaking into a police station in the early hours of Monday, according to media reports.

Officers working in the back of the police station in a suburb of the southern city of Adelaide heard the front door glass being smashed and found the 16-year old in the front hall.

"A teenage boy has discovered the quickest way of getting arrested is to break into a police station," South Australia state police said in a statement on its website. About 2,000 Australian dollars (1,340 U.S. dollars) of damage was caused and the boy was denied bail, the statement said.

A police spokesman added the youth did not give a reason for his actions, and may have had "a bit too much to drink."

(Agencies)