JOLIET – The Joliet Park District is adding security at the Inwood complex.
The park board last month approved a $130,500 contract with Tyco Integrated Security to install more security cameras at Inwood.
The cameras will arrive in the coming weeks and will improve upon security cameras there now, district Executive Director Tom Carstens said.
Cameras will go in the athletic club, ice arena and parking lot.
“We’re getting better cameras and additional cameras to cover more areas,” Carstens said.
The current equipment is dated, and improved security cameras probably should have been added years ago, he said.
“[Tyco] already [has] looked at the Inwood Athletic Club, ice arena and parking lot for where to set the cameras,” Carstens said. “They’re probably going to begin in the next couple of weeks.”
Inwood has had security issues off and on, including a locker burglary in recent weeks, but there has not been a rash of incidents to motivate the additional security, Carstens said.
“We just want to make sure we have the security here,” he said.