Former Surrey RCMP officer sentenced to 18 months for breach of trust

Former Surrey RCMP probationary officer Dawwd (Daoud) Soukary has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in April to breach of trust. The 31-year-old admitted accessing confidential police databases and files for purposes inconsistent with his duties between November 2020 and his arrest on Jan. 27, 2021.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Murray B. Blok said in Aug. 27 oral reasons that the count Soukary admitted involved repeated access to confidential police information and its disclosure to criminal associates. A February 2025 indictment contained 13 charges, including breach of trust, drug trafficking, unlawful distribution of cannabis, conspiracy to commit robbery and theft over $5,000.

The investigation began in early August 2020 after the RCMP received a report, supported by CCTV footage, that Soukary had helped suspected criminals MN and AH buy a significant quantity of Schedule 1 drugs. Police later concluded MN and AH had connections to drug trafficking and organized crime in the Lower Mainland. Soukary, then required to work with a field training officer, was reported to have said he intended to access police databases for associates once he could work alone.

Investigators recruited him into a fictitious undercover operation with a second undercover officer posing as a corrupt associate of drug traffickers. The apparent goal was to buy a kilogram of cocaine from a fictitious major trafficker, but Soukary was the real target. Once allowed to conduct a traffic stop independently, he used a remote workstation to make two inquiries in the provincewide PRIME police records and occurrence management system.

On Jan. 27, 2021, the head of the sham operation provided Soukary $72,000 in RCMP buy money for a kilogram of cocaine, including $2,000 in case the fictional trafficker sought more than $70,000. Soukary bought real cocaine for $63,000 but reported paying the full $72,000. He later said he had made $9,000, gave his undercover partner $1,000 and kept $8,000. He was arrested shortly afterward with $8,000 on him. The $63,000, the $1,000 and the cocaine remained under RCMP control.

A search of Soukary’s phone found that he repeatedly sent MN and AH confidential information and photos obtained through his work. Blok categorized the material as Real Time Intelligence Centre British Columbia bulletins, information obtained on active policing duties, and results of unauthorized database queries. Soukary sent photos of three RTIC bulletins, including one seeking identification of three men suspected in a drive-by shooting at a residence believed to belong to MN and a subsequent vehicle fire.

He also sent MN PRIME information about a person suspected of drug trafficking and said to be carrying $40,000, suggesting that person be robbed. He photographed a drug score sheet and a list of 14 names and phone numbers, sent them to AH, and queried and shared a vehicle licence plate. He also ran names in PRIME on Dec. 28 and Jan. 1 and told his fictional corrupt partner Jan. 2 that he had queried two names for $2,000.

Blok said the Crown could not obtain an RCMP victim impact statement, but the conduct harmed the reputation of the RCMP and its officers. Soukary, who was born and raised in Ottawa, was 25 during the offences and has no other criminal record. He has a daughter and previously worked as a realtor before moving to a soccer and athletic performance gym. The judge accepted the joint Crown-defence submission for 18 months. Other charges were stayed; the court authorized a bodily sample for forensic DNA analysis and imposed a mandatory $200 victim fine surcharge.