Chrissy Curran was surprised, but not overly shocked, when someone broke into her unlocked Whitehall Terrace home in June.

It was probably some mischievous kids, she thought. Only an iPod and a plastic container of loose change were stolen.

“It was small and it seemed random,” Curran said.

But then it happened again. And again. And again. Curran’s house has been burglarized four times since June, including Oct. 19, when thieves stole a 50-inch flat-screen television.

“I’m not seeing an end in sight,” she said.

Across the street from Curran, the home of Nicole McIntyre was also burglarized twice since July. Another Whitehall Terrace resident, Diane Berube, returned home about 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 4 to see an intruder running out her back door. Police called in a K-9 unit to track the burglar’s scent, but he was never caught.

At the same time police investigated Curran’s most recent burglary on Oct. 19, they dusted for fingerprints across town at 70 Corriveau Drive, the home of Dan and Ginnie Toland, which was found broken into the previous night.

Among the items stolen: a 50-inch flat-screen TV and jewelry. Police said not much else was taken, but the house was heavily ransacked.

The Tolands did not respond to requests for an interview, but Ginnie Toland spoke at a Police Commission meeting on Oct. 20, calling for an increased police presence in her neighborhood. Her house was the second one burglarized on Corriveau Drive since July.

“It’s disturbing,” Toland said. “What’s more disturbing is to hear it happened again.”

Police commissioners talked about forming a neighborhood watch type of program last month. Now, there’s a push for action more than ever.

“This issue is now,” said David Gagnon, chairman of the Hooksett Police Commission. “It’s not coming. It’s now.”

Toland and her husband had left town for the weekend, but neighbors told her a white van was in her driveway.

“There were people out in broad daylight casing our house,” she said. “They came right through our front door. It’s really disturbing.”

Jim and Lucille Shea know what their neighbors are going through. When their house was broken into the morning of July 20, it was ransacked and their 50-inch television was also stolen, along with jewelry and Jim’s shotgun.

“We had just purchased a new flat-screen television and the first thing I noticed when I walked in was that there was no television set,” Lucille Shea said. “They had trashed the entire upstairs.”

During the Police Commission meeting, it was announced that police officers will host a public forum at the Hooksett Public Library on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. to give residents tips on how to prevent burglaries.

Also during the commission meeting, Police Capt. Paul Cecilio said he’s in talks with Manchester police about expanding the Manchester Crime Line to include Hooksett, Goffstown and Bedford. The Crime Line is a 24-hour phone center where people can anonymously report information about crimes and sometimes receive cash rewards.

Police officials say a neighborhood watch is unlikely for Hooksett. Nationally, watch programs are designed for urban areas, where police hold meetings with residents and train them to walk the streets looking for suspicious activity and calling it in.

The Hooksett Police Department says it’s already understaffed and cannot afford to send a police car to exclusively patrol the neighborhood around Corriveau Drive, which is seeing increased activity due to retail development near Interstate 93’s Exit 10.

McIntyre hopes people will be more aware of suspicious activity. All the burglaries on Whitehall Terrace have occurred in the middle of the day while the victims are at work.

“The funny thing is that half the neighbors are home all the time,” she said.

The latest incident happened Monday, Nov. 3, sometime between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., at a home on Laurel Drive.

Police said someone broke through the kitchen window, ransacked the house and stole jewelry.

The location is two streets away from Whitehall Terrace, where several homes have been burglarized over the past six months.