Among those promoted Friday at the NYPD Police Academy in College Point, Queens were two officers with ties to the department that go beyond the badge.
Officer Gina Buscemi, who next month will celebrate a decade with the department, has been promoted to sergeant. By her side was her father, James Buscemi, who served nearly 34 years in the NYPD and was an elite Emergency Service Unit sergeant until 2017.
The promotion is complete: Gina was a girl and was in her father’s arms when he became a sergeant.
She will wear her father’s badge number: 378.
Buscemi’s husband, Lt. Joshua Rios, marked his own milestone at the ceremony with a promotion to captain after 13 years in Queens’ 113th Precinct.
