A former Surrey RCMP probationary officer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for breach of trust, in a case where a fictitious undercover operation helped expose his actions.
Dawwd (Daoud) Soukary, now 31, pleaded guilty in April to one count of a 13-count indictment.
The charge alleged that he had committed breach of trust by “accessing confidential police databases and files for a purpose inconsistent with his duties as a police officer” between November of 2020 and his arrest on Jan. 27, 2021.
Although the indictment, which was filed in February of 2025, charged Soukary with 13 offences — including breach of trust in his capacity as a police officer, drug trafficking, unlawful distribution of cannabis, conspiracy to commit robbery, and theft over $5,000 — “the count to which Mr. Soukary has pleaded guilty comprises a number of events where he accessed confidential police information and disclosed that information to criminal associates of his,” Supreme Court of B.C. Judge Murray B. Blok wrote in his Aug. 27 oral reasons for sentence.
The sentence document outlines how the investigation of Soukary, who was born and raised in Ottawa, began in early August of 2020, when the RCMP received a report — supported by CCTV footage — that Soukary was involved in the purchase of a significant volume of Schedule 1 drugs on behalf of suspected criminals MN and AH.
“Later investigation satisfied police that MN and AH had connections to drug trafficking and organized crime in the Lower Mainland,” Blok said, noting Soukary was a probationary Surrey RCMP officer required to work in the company of a field training officer. “The person who made the report to police said Mr. Soukary told him that once he was able to work on his own he intended to access police databases to obtain information for his associates,” Blok continued.
RCMP investigators formulated and implemented a plan to recruit Soukary as an undercover operator for a fictitious undercover operation targeting a fictitious drug trafficker, the sentencing noted. He was paired with another undercover operator who pretended to be corrupt and associate with drug traffickers.
“The goal of this fictitious operation was to arrange a purchase of a kilogram of cocaine from a particular big-time (but also fictional) trafficker, but the real target of the operation was Mr. Soukary,” the sentencing shared.
After his new “undercover” partner told Soukary he was providing confidential police information to criminal associates, Soukary then indicated to the partner that his own associates had asked him for police database information, but he had been unable to do so as he was still with a trainer.
A month later, arrangements were made for Soukary to perform a traffic stop on his own, which provided him an opportunity to access police databases from a remote workstation, at which time he conducted two inquiries on the PRIME (a provincewide electronic police records and occurrence management system) database.
The operation, both the fictional one and the real one, came to an end on Jan. 27, 2021, when Soukary was in place to purchase a kilogram of cocaine from “a fictional big-time trafficker,” who was asking $70,000 for a one-kg cocaine brick.
Soukary told his fictionally corrupt partner that the market price was really between $55,000 and $60,000, and if he got it for less than $70,000 he would falsely claim he paid the full price and then pocket the difference, Blok continued in his sentence.
“His partner encouraged this, and Mr. Soukary agreed to split the proceeds with him if that happened.”
On Jan. 27, 2021, the head of the sham RCMP undercover operation provided Mr. Soukary with $72,000 of RCMP buy money, the extra $2,000 being in case the big-time trafficker asked for more than $70,000. Soukary negotiated a lower price, purchasing the cocaine for $63,000, but told the head of the sham undercover operation that he had paid the full $72,000, the sentencing noted.
After the deal, Mr. Soukary called his undercover partner and told him he had finessed the deal in a way that garnered him $9,000; he gave his partner $1,000, and told his partner that he was going to take the other $8,000 himself.
Soukary was arrested shortly afterward, at which time $8,000 was found on his person. The $63,000 in purchase money was obviously recovered, as it never left RCMP hands; the $1,000 paid to the other undercover operator was also accounted for, and the cocaine (which was real) also never left RCMP control, Blok shared.
After Soukary’s cellphone was seized, searched and analyzed, it revealed Soukary repeatedly texted either photographs of confidential information or confidential information obtained in the course of his employment to the two people mentioned earlier, MN and AH.
Blok said the information in question falls into three categories:
• bulletins from Real Time Intelligence Centre British Columbia (RTIC), an analysis unit that compiles information and intelligence and disseminates that information to regular RCMP members;
• file materials or database information obtained while on active policing duties;
• information obtained via unauthorized queries of police databases.
Soukary’s breaches of trust included three incidents of Soukary sending photographs of three RTIC bulletins that contained images for which RTIC sought information; the last of those bulletins was a request to identify three males suspected to be involved in a drive-by shooting at a residence, believed to be MN’s, and subsequent car fire.
Soukary also exchanged texts with MN on two dates in December 2020, “telling him about an individual believed to be trafficking drugs who was carrying $40,000 in cash on his person. Mr. Soukary sent MN a photo of his computer screen, showing information from the PRIME police records database with that individual’s personal information. One of Mr. Soukary’s texts reads ‘Come rob this guy with the 40k on him,’” Blok said in the sentencing document.
In addition, Soukary acted as an exhibits officer to photograph two exhibits — one being a drug “score sheet” and the other, a list of 14 names and telephone numbers, which he sent to his personal phone, and then sent them to AH, “with a text indicating these were either users or dealers, and ‘Either way free money.’”
He also queries a vehicle licence plate on PRIME and sent the results to AH; the registered owner of the subject vehicle was a suspected drug dealer.
On Dec. 28. 2020. Soukary ran two other names on PRIME, then sent the following message to MN: “I got those addies fam” and “still need their birthdays or age to confirm it’s them.”
“Subsequently, MN and Mr. Soukary discussed a news article relating to one of the individuals, where that person’s age was mentioned. The police believe those individuals are associated to the drug trade in the Lower Mainland, but they do not know if they are rivals of MN,” Blok’s sentencing continued.
On Jan. 1, 2021, Soukary queried five partial names on PRIME, including a further search for the two earlier individuals, and took a photo of the results, then texted MN with the message, “got all of dem,” Blok noted, and on Jan. 2, 2021, Soukary told his fictionally corrupt undercover partner that he had queried two names on PRIME in exchange for $2,000.
Blok noted the Crown was unable to obtain a victim impact statement from the RCMP, “However, there is no doubt that Mr. Soukary’s actions have caused harm to the reputation of both the RCMP in general and all its dedicated, hardworking officers.”
Soukary was 25 at the time of the offences and is now 31, Blok noted in his sentence, adding he was an accomplished basketball player in his youth, has a daughter, and worked as a realtor “before shifting to work at a soccer and athletic performance gym.”
Other than the current matter, Soukary has no criminal record, Blok said.
Crown and defence prepared a joint submission proposing a sentence of 18 months imprisonment, and Blok agreed.
“For the offence on which you have pleaded guilty, which is the amended Count 2 in the indictment, I sentence you to jail for a period of 18 months,” Blok said in the sentencing.
A stay for the other charges was entered, but Blok also authorized the taking of a bodily substance (from Soukary) for the purposes of forensic DNA analysis; and imposed the mandatory victim fine surcharge of $200.