HAWKEYE Electronic Security Ltd will this morning open a sales office in Portmore, St Catherine in a move influenced by demand and a desire to expand its growing customer base.

“There’s a big market in Portmore that is virtually untapped, said Derrick “Ricky” Mahfood, who, with his brother Mark Mahfood, established Hawkeye in February 1988.

“This is an opportunity for us to provide security to thousands of households,” Ricky Mahfood said.

Hawkeye provides private security to more than 1,000 clients in Kingston and Montego Bay and, according to Mahfood, response to the firm’s decision to provide service in Portmore has been “excellent”.

“We’ve been installing systems literally daily,” Mahfood told the Observer.

He said that householders and business people in Portmore have been making requests for the firm’s services and they have been taking advantage of Hawkeye’s panic system which gives clients a panic alarm device free and provides, for a small monthly fee, 24-hour roadside assistance and a 24-hour ambulance service.

Mahfood said, too, that his burglary detection system has proven quite popular in Portmore, home to almost 300,000 Jamaicans and businesses.

Although Hawkeye’s sales office will signal the firm’s serious thrust into Portmore, it has always maintained a base for its Armed Response Team on Port Henderson Road, which sits off the Causeway, one of the main roads linking that sub-urban community with the capital.

In addition to the panic/hold-up, intrusion detection, roadside assistance and ambulance services, Hawkeye offers its clients closed circuit television, remote video surveillance, access control, automatic gate openers and intercom systems.