There’s a new top cop in Surrey, and he just happens to be from the Royal City.
Chief Supt. Dwayne McDonald, who lives in the Royal City with his wife and three children, was appointed the Surrey RCMP’s officer in charge during a ceremony earlier this month. The 21-year RCMP veteran grew up in Surrey, and in 1995 he joined the mounted police and was assigned his first post at the Burnaby RCMP, according to a press release.
There he rose through the ranks, working in several different sections, including general duty, community special sections, Strike Force, major crime and the Emergency Response Team. After 12 years at the Burnaby detachment, McDonald transferred to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. He would serve four years with the homicide team before being transferred over to the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. (the province’s anti-gang unit), the release noted.
In 2012, McDonald received his commission with the RCMP and was promoted to Inspector during which time he served as the operations officer/senior investigator for the anti-gang unit. Two years later he was promoted again, this time to Superintendent and moved back to the homicide team as the officer in charge, overseeing the largest homicide unit in Canada with 110 police officers, civilian members and public service employees, according to the release.
This month, McDonald was promoted to Chief Superintendent and made the officer in charge of the Surrey RCMP, the largest RCMP detachment in the country. He takes over the vacated space left behind by Asst. Commissioner Bill Fordy, who was recently promoted himself.
