Police are investigating another home invasion, this time in Devonshire, that has left area residents angry and fearful.It is the third home invasion in Bermuda within the past four weeks and the latest incident occurred around 8.30 pm on Monday at a private home near the junction of Middle and Hermitage Roads.The Royal Gazette understands the occupants, a couple and their children, including a ten-year-old; were held at gunpoint while four unknown culprits searched the premises after they pushed their way through the door.Sources told this newspaper the occupants were held at gunpoint and told not to move or make any noise while the robbery was in progress. Cash, jewellery and a PlayStation unit were stolen.No one was injured in the incident. Police are now looking for three men and a woman who entered the home armed with a gun and a machete. All four were wearing dark coloured clothing with hoodies and scarfs covering their faces.Area residents who asked not be identified reacted to the incident, one woman said: “I knew this was coming because there was a robbery down here just the other day. The guys ran right through here and then the police swarmed the area.“I feel even more nervous when I hear a child was subjected to this, and I was just warned by relatives today to keep my door locked. We have a habit of just going out and leaving the house open.Her concerns were echoed by her husband. “It’s been a big concern all around Bermuda but when it hits your neighbourhood there is even more concern for yourself, your loved ones and your home.“I’m not too surprised to hear that one of the assailants was a woman because women are in a position of either being forced to do things or just being an accomplice.”But his biggest concern is the fact that guns are now being used to put the lives of children at stake. “As a father with babies in the house and children of my own I am very concerned. We have to speak up, secure our homes, network and do the very best we can to stop this.”An electrician working nearby, who is also a father, said: “Bermuda doesn’t manufacture guns and yet they’re obviously here and it’s time to get more stringent laws on Customs clearance because the guns are still getting in somehow.“I don’t know if it has to do with the recession with so many people out of work because the rise in this sort of crime came before the recession.“I’m extremely concerned because they could have did it to me. I could have came to my door and with a gun pointed at me what could I do absolutely nothing.”He also suggested that one home invasion leads to another. “It’s creating a rippling effect, you have one group of people doing it and then it’s like monkey see, monkey do. They’re all following and I think people trying to get some sort of accolades under their belt for doing this sort of thing.“We need to figure out who is doing this stuff and have more severe punishment for it.”Another resident who has known the family for many years said: “This is really scary because I live just two minutes away from here.“Bermuda today is not the Bermuda it was when I first came here and I’ve been here 32 years, I’m from Scotland. The police can only do so much, I think we need to bring back and step up the neighbourhood watch groups.“This is a hardworking family, they are very nice people, their children are respectful and there is no way they deserved this. All of the older children work, it’s not like they’re sitting at home watching TV.“I feel for them because they are obviously very scared, they’re traumatised and even angry. When you have someone holding a gun to your head my God what do you do, it’s frightening and I have a ten-year-old child as well.”He also said another house was broken into last year, and the occupant made the discovery before he got home. “The guy knew because he saw the burglar walking down the street wearing the same NASCAR hat that he had specially made just for him.“I noticed another man acting suspiciously around here a few weeks ago and told all my neighbours. The guy rode up on a push bike and stopped by the driveway.“He just sat there looking around like he was studying the area, I didn’t bother to call the police because he wasn’t breaking the law at the time.”“There is no fear in these people and I doubt very seriously that this was gang related. Maybe people are just desperate because there are so many people out of work.”Ane he concurred with the growing sentiment that nowhere is safe in Bermuda anymore.“When all this garbage was going on around the back of town it was no big deal, then it moved into the nicer areas, it’s even on Front Street. Now people are starting to complain when it should have been dealt with a long time ago.”There were two home invasions reported last month. Three women were held at gunpoint at a cottage in Southampton near the Reefs on March 5.Two men have been charged with possessing the laptop computer stolen with cash and other items by armed gunmen, but no one has been charged with the armed robbery.And three men have been charged with another home invasion at a Hamilton Parish residence on March 20. All three have been remanded in custody.Meanwhile police are asking for anyone with information on this latest incident to call the Serious Crime Unit on 247-1079, or the confidential Crime Stoppers hotline on 800-8477.