Sandy Dosanjh ‘removed’ as Surrey city council candidate after husband charged

Published 12:19 pm Friday, September 4, 2026

The wife of a Vancouver Police detective who was arrested and charged Thursday (Sept. 3) with multiple counts of fraud and theft of over $5,000 is no longer running for Surrey City Council, the Conservative Party of Surrey announced the next day.

Sandy Dosanjh was running for Surrey city council in the 2026 municipal election with the Conservative Party of Surrey slate, with mayoral candidate Honveer Randhawa.

“She was removed as a candidate,” David Denhoff, president of Conservative Electors Association and Conservative Party of Surrey, told the Now-Leader Friday (Sept. 4).

“Honveer faced a difficult decision and acted immediately, decisively, with strength and integrity,” said Denhoff. “He did not assign guilt to Sandy. He recognized that the situation created a serious issue of public confidence, and he put public trust and the people of Surrey first.”

The party issued a statement Friday morning stating, “As Sandy is no longer a candidate for public office, we ask that her privacy be respected at this time so that she is able to focus on her family.”

Her husband, Kalwinder (Kal) Singh Dosanjh, has been with the Vancouver Police Department for more than 25 years and has served in many roles, including senior detective in the Financial Crimes Unit and most recently in the traffic section.

He has been charged with four counts of fraud, four counts of theft over $5,000 and breach of trust by a public officer. A spokesperson for the B.C. Prosecution Service said the alleged offences occurred between Dec. 8, 2017 and July 25, 2025 “at or near Vancouver, Surrey, and/or other locations in British Columbia.”

None of these allegations have been proven in court.

The majority of the victims are members of the community and investors of Dosanjh and his co-accused, Sarabjit Singh Gill, police said. Both men are Surrey residents.

Police said Gill and Dosanjh were business associates at the time of the alleged offences and that the charges relate to “housing developments.”

Some of the charges relate to the foundation the Dosanjh started in 2015.

Dosanjh founded KidsPlay in 2015, after spending 15 years of his career on patrol in the Downtown Eastside. During that time, he saw many kids from underprivileged backgrounds who were not afforded the same opportunities as kids elsewhere in the city.

Dosanjh wanted this to change and to be a part of that change, so he started running organized sports programs under the police athletic league after work for inner-city kids.

A Surrey resident, Dosanjh wanted to bring what he started in Vancouver to Surrey. With that, KidsPlay was born as a vehicle to help keep kids away from the lifestyle of drugs, gangs and violence.

Sandy Dosanjh ‘removed’ as Surrey city council candidate after husband charged

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