Dave Sweet

Position: Board of Directors, Board Chair, Scholarship Board Representative
Categories: Board of Directors

DAVE SWEET is an active-duty Homicide Detective with twenty years on the job.

He has worked in the Drug Unit and the Organized Crime Section and teaches new recruits. He also presents at law enforcement conferences and various community groups.

In addition to a Distinguished Service Award in 2010, Detective Sweet received the Chief’s Award for Investigative Excellence in 2017. Dave has also been featured on the CBC series The Detectives and recently released his first book Skeletons in My Closet – Life Lessons from a Homicide Detective.

The Gems for Gems organization fits well Dave’s own personal Mantra to leave people better than you found them and believes wholeheartedly that this is the intention of the Gems movement.