An ex-Surrey cop was only on the job for a few months before he was caught buying drugs for gangsters.

The former RCMP officer flipped the script when he worked as an informant for gang members, feeding them confidential police information from police databases, according to an Aug. 27 court decision.

Once the RCMP’s Anti-Corruption Unit caught wind, they paired him with an undercover officer who posed as a corrupt cop.

“He took the bait that his colleagues set for him. He was tempted with opportunities for corruption and he succumbed to that temptation,” Justice Murray Blok’s BC Supreme Court decision reads.

Dawwd Alaaeldine Soukary, 31, was facing 13 criminal charges and pleaded guilty to one of them this year. He was sentenced to 18 months jail for breaching public trust.

BC prosecutors first charged him in 2023, but he was first arrested outside an RCMP detachment two years earlier and resigned soon after.

The investigation started in August 2020 when he was spotted on surveillance footage buying a “significant volume of Schedule 1 drugs” on behalf of Lower Mainland traffickers. No charges resulted out of the drug buy, but officers kept close tabs on him.

Soukary, 25 years old at the time, was still on probation as a Mountie and the subject of a covert anti-corruption investigation.

The undercover officer created fake scenarios, arranging cocaine purchases from a fictitious drug trafficker. When it came to an end, Soukary stole $9,000 of RCMP funds for a $70,000 undercover purchase. He gave $1,000 to the partner posing as a corrupt cop, according to the decision.

Upon his arrest, police searched his phone and found numerous text exchanges with two people known to be tied to Lower Mainland gangs.

There were multiple times where Soukary shared confidential police intelligence, photos of exhibits and they discussed news coverage of local gangs. In one case, they made a plan to rob another drug trafficker believed to have $40,000 in cash on him, according to the decision.

According Blok’s decision, Soukary grew up in Ottawa, the son of Egyptian immigrants in an impverished neighbourhood. It’s not clear how he became tied to Lower Mainland drug traffickers after being deployed to Surrey, but he returned to Ottawa after resigning from the RCMP.

Blok said his behaviour demonstrated a “high level of immaturity” and will leave him with “lifelong consequences.”

His guilty plea wasn’t early, but it did avoid a six-week trial in which Soukary’s defence said it would have had the court consider whether the investigation “crossed the line into entrapment.”

During his sentence, Soukary will likely face “harsh conditions” and spend his time in protective custody since he was a police officer.

RCMP did not provide a statement to the court, but Blok said there is “no doubt” that Soukary’s actions harmed the reputation of the police agency and its officers. Blok added that there were very few similar cases in Canada to compare to.