CCTV for company premises in Kuwait, to the MOI's camera rules

Name: UltraTech Kuwait
Address: Next to X-cite, Fahaheel, Al-Ahmadi, KW
Telephone: +96522020922
Price range: $$$

UltraTech Kuwait's CCTV technicians plan, install, check and repair camera systems for company premises across Kuwait, to the Ministry of Interior's rules. Since Cabinet Resolution 207/2019, company and commercial premises fall under Law 61/2015: cameras running all day with a central control room, recordings kept at least 120 consecutive days (Decree-Law 76/2026), and the camera points the MOI sets for each zone, from entrances to cash counters. Each camera is chosen for the detail its zone needs: a common 4 MP camera with a 2.8 mm lens identifies a face only within about 4.1 m.

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Reviewed by Eng. M. Ahmed, Team Leader, Network & Project Specialist · Updated 2026-10-19

Law 61/2015 for company premises

Covered: Company and commercial premises, added in 2019
Recording: At least 120 consecutive days, unaltered
Running: All day, with a central control room
Signs: Clear signs that cameras are in use

As amended by Decree-Law 76/2026. Details below.

Technicians: Pakistani and Indian field technicians, led by an engineer with 13+ years in Kuwait
The law: Law 61/2015, Decree-Law 76/2026, Cabinet Resolution 207/2019
Company premises: 21 camera zones set by the MOI, each with its view type
Projects: New buildings, extensions, several sites, control rooms
Service: Health checks, recorders and disks, night image, remote viewing, faults
Coverage: All six governorates of Kuwait
WhatsApp: +965 60607910

Who the CCTV law covers

Law 61/2015 makes cameras compulsory for the facilities it names, and a cabinet resolution in 2019 added 37 groups to them, company and commercial premises among them. The MOI's General Department of Security Systems applies it and inspects.

Named in the law

Hotels and hotel apartments
Malls and commercial complexes
Co-operative societies
Residential complexes
Banks and exchange shops
Gold and jewellery shops
Sports and cultural clubs, youth centres
Shopping and entertainment centres
Hospitals and clinics
Stores of valuable or hazardous materials
Fuel stations

Added in 2019: business premises

Company and commercial establishment premises
Investment and commercial buildings, residential towers
Cafés, shisha cafés included
Government and private car parks, multi-storey or open
Industrial sites of every size, craft workshops, worker housing outside industrial areas
Warehouses, transport workshops and stations
Pharmacies, clinics, medical labs and medicine stores
Schools, institutes, universities, kindergartens and nurseries
Private sports clubs and gyms
Wedding and event halls, exhibitions
Theatres and cinemas, museums
Tourism projects
Free zones and industrial areas
Press, publishing and printing houses

Cabinet Resolution 207/2019 added 37 groups in all; the others are public and state sites such as ports, oil facilities and power stations.

Camera points the MOI sets for company premises

The MOI publishes the minimum places cameras must cover for each kind of facility, and the view each one needs. For company and commercial premises it lists 21 zones. A zone the site does not have does not apply.

#	Zone	View the MOI asks for
1	Fences and the outer perimeter	Monitor
2	Internal roads within the site	Detect
3	Entrances and exits of the building, roofs, basements and emergency exits	Identify
4	Vehicle entrances and exits of the site's yards	Number plate
5	Loading and unloading areas	Detect
6	Visitor drop-off and pick-up areas	Detect
7	Internal corridors on every floor	Recognise
8	Offices in the reception hall	Recognise
9	Lobby, reception and main hall	Recognise
10	Lift waiting areas on every floor	Recognise
11	Inside the lifts	Recognise
12	Stairs and escalators on every floor	Recognise
13	ATM locations	Recognise
14	Help and reception desks, showing the staff member and the customer	Recognise
15	Deposit, bag and safe rooms	Recognise
16	Cash and payment counters, showing the staff member and the customer	Recognise
17	Archive entrances, exits and inside	Recognise
18	Gardens, lawns and pools within the site	Detect
19	Inside the operations room	Recognise
20	Emergency assembly points	Detect
21	Gas cylinder, electrical, generator, water tank, hazardous material, central A/C and fire-fighting cylinder rooms	Identify

The MOI's view types

Identify120% of the screen: A stranger identified the first time they are seen
Recognise50% of the screen: A known person told apart from another
Number plate20% of the screen: The number on a vehicle's plate read
Detect10% of the screen: Moving people and objects picked out on screen
Monitor5% of the screen: Events followed in general

From the MOI's appendix 33 for company and commercial premises. A part of the site covered by another appendix, such as a car park or a store of hazardous materials, follows that appendix too.

What the law asks of the owner

The owner and the manager of a covered facility are responsible, not the installer. These are the duties, by article of Law 61/2015.

Article 2Cameras installed and running all day, with a central control room. The MOI may require them to be linked to a body it names.
Article 3The technical specification is set by ministerial resolution (5003/2015); the places, points and number of cameras by the MOI.
Article 4Clear signs that the premises have cameras.
Article 5Recordings kept at least 120 consecutive days, with nothing edited, erased or processed in that time (as amended in 2026). After that the facility may set its own retention.
Article 6Recordings handed over, copied, sent or published only with written approval of the investigating authority or the court.
Article 7Cameras and recorders maintained and updated regularly, so they keep working and keep meeting the specification.
Article 9No cameras where people live or sleep, in changing rooms, toilets, physiotherapy rooms, women's health institutes or women's salons.

Settlement of a violation (2026)

Decree-Law 76/2026 lets a facility settle a violation instead of going to court: it applies within 7 working days of the violation report, then has up to 30 days to correct it and pay the amount the law sets. Once settled, the criminal case ends.

Articles breached	Settlement amount
Article 5	1,000 KWD
Article 2, 7	500 KWD
Article 4	250 KWD

A summary of Law 61/2015, Decree-Law 76/2026, Cabinet Resolution 207/2019 and the MOI's camera point appendices, as published on moi.gov.kw (read October 2026). The texts themselves decide.

What a camera shows at each distance

A camera's detail is counted in pixels per metre of the scene, and it falls as the distance grows. The international standard for CCTV, IEC 62676-4, names four levels, so a camera can be judged by what it must show and not by its megapixels alone.

Detect25 px/m
A person or a car is there.
Observe62 px/m
What they wear and what they do.
Recognise125 px/m
Someone you know is recognised.
Identify250 px/m
A stranger is identified beyond doubt; the level a face or a number plate needs.

Camera and lens	Detect	Observe	Recognise	Identify
2 MP · 2.8 mm	31 m	12 m	6.1 m	3.1 m
4 MP · 2.8 mm	41 m	16 m	8.1 m	4.1 m
8 MP · 2.8 mm	62 m	25 m	12 m	6.2 m
4 MP · 4 mm	57 m	23 m	11 m	5.7 m
4 MP · 6 mm	100 m	41 m	20 m	10 m
4 MP · 12 mm	198 m	80 m	40 m	20 m

Furthest distance for each level, from the camera's horizontal pixels and a typical angle of view for its lens. A camera's own datasheet decides. At night on infrared the usable detail is lower.

Wide and narrow lens, drawn to scale

The same 4 MP camera with two lenses, seen from above over 24 metres. The wide lens covers more of the room but identifies faces only near the camera; the narrow lens sees a strip but holds detail far further.

4 MP camera, 2.8 mm lens, 103° view60 m wide at 24 m from the camera

4 MP camera, 6 mm lens, 54° view24 m wide at 24 m from the camera

The camera each place needs

Each place a business asks a camera to cover needs a level of detail at a distance. The most common camera in Kuwait offices and shops, 4 MP with a 2.8 mm lens, is checked against each, then the camera that does the job.

Cash counter
The face of the person paying, close to the camera.
Distance
2.5 m
Needs
Identify
4 MP, 2.8 mm here
enough
Shop or office door
Every face coming in, at the door.
Distance
5 m
Needs
Identify
4 MP, 2.8 mm here
not enough
Widest camera that does it: 8 MP · 2.8 mm
Or a 4 MP camera with: 4 mm
Gate: number plates
The plate of each car at the barrier. At night a plate also needs a fast shutter or a camera made for plates.
Distance
8 m
Needs
Identify
4 MP, 2.8 mm here
not enough
Widest camera that does it: 4 MP · 6 mm
Corridor or aisle
Who walked down it, among staff and regular visitors.
Distance
12 m
Needs
Recognise
4 MP, 2.8 mm here
not enough
Widest camera that does it: 8 MP · 2.8 mm
Or a 4 MP camera with: 6 mm
Car park
What happened between the cars.
Distance
20 m
Needs
Observe
4 MP, 2.8 mm here
not enough
Widest camera that does it: 8 MP · 2.8 mm
Or a 4 MP camera with: 4 mm

How a company CCTV project runs

For a new building, an extension or a site that has to meet the MOI's points, the work follows the same order.

01
Site survey
Every zone on the MOI's list walked, with distances measured from where each camera can go.
02
Camera schedule
One line per camera: zone, view needed, camera, lens and mounting height, marked on the drawing.
03
Recording and storage
Recorders and disks sized for 120 consecutive days of every camera, plus the control room and the UPS.
04
Cabling and installation
Cable runs, PoE switches, mounting and labels, camera by camera.
05
Handover check
Each zone's picture checked against its view type, recording and time confirmed, export tested.
06
Maintenance
Regular checks and updates, as article 7 asks, with a written report.

The CCTV system health check

A system can show live video on every screen and still fail the day footage is needed. The technician runs these checks on the recorder and the cameras, and writes down what was found.

Check	What passing looks like	What we often find
Every camera recording	Each channel has recordings for every hour of the schedule	A camera on live view only, or on motion recording that misses events
Oldest recording	At least 120 consecutive days for premises the law covers, nothing edited or erased	A few days only, after a disk was added at a higher resolution
Disk health	Disks rated for surveillance, no errors in their health report, RAID healthy where used	A desktop disk running 24 hours a day, or one disk failed and nobody told
Time on the footage	The recorder's clock set by a time server, Kuwait time zone	Minutes or hours wrong, so footage does not match the receipts or the gate log
Night image	A clear face at the door on infrared	Glare from the dome cover, dust or spider webs on the lens
Export	A clip exported to USB plays on another computer	A file only the recorder's own software opens
Remote viewing	The app works for each named user, without the admin password	One admin login shared by everyone, or remote view dead since the internet line changed
Passwords and firmware	No default passwords, current firmware, unused cloud services off	The installer's password from years ago, never changed
Power	The recorder and the PoE switch on a UPS, with the PoE budget in hand	Cameras that drop out after every power cut

Common CCTV faults

Video loss on one camera: Usually the cable, its connector or the PoE port; after a camera is reset, a changed address or password. Tested from the switch port to the camera.
Cameras offline after a power cut: The PoE switch is not on the UPS, or cameras came back with new addresses from the router. Fixed addresses and UPS power stop it.
Gaps in the recording: Disk errors, a recording schedule with holes, or motion detection set too low to trigger.
"HDD error" or a beeping recorder: A failing disk, or a new disk that was never initialised. The disk is tested and replaced with a surveillance-rated one.
White or foggy night image: Infrared reflecting off the dome cover, a wall or the eaves close to the lens, or dust on the cover. Cleaning, a reset of the cover or a move of the camera fixes it.
Blurred image by day: A lens out of focus, condensation inside the housing, or a camera too far from what it watches for its lens.
Remote viewing stopped: A new router or internet line, a 5G line that cannot accept incoming connections, or a changed app password.
Wrong time on the footage: No time server set, a wrong time zone, or a recorder that loses its clock when the power goes.
An exported clip will not play: A recorder format that needs its own player. Exported again as MP4, or with the player included.

Door stations at the gate and the entrance can record to the same recorder. Intercom technician. Cameras that drop out on PoE are often a cabling fault on the run. Cabling and fiber technician

Brands we install and service

Hikvision
Dahua
Hanwha Vision
Axis
Ubiquiti UniFi Protect
TP-Link VIGI
Ruijie

Existing cameras and recorders are kept where they still do the job; the visit decides what is replaced.

The technicians and engineers

The CCTV work is done by field technicians and engineers who are Pakistani and Indian, led by an engineer with 13+ years of experience in Kuwait. The team works in Arabic, English and Hindi.

Where we work

Capital (Al Asimah)
Hawalli
Farwaniya
Mubarak Al-Kabeer
Ahmadi
Jahra

Tell us what the cameras must show

The number of cameras, the make of the recorder and what is not working, or the places that must be covered, are enough to plan the visit. The findings and the quote are written.