Staff Photo / Ed Runyan Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Hannah Short laugh during Short’s promotion swearing-in ceremony.

YOUNGSTOWN — The swearing-in ceremony for the Youngstown Police Department’s newest detective sergeant took on a family feel Thursday as Hannah Short was sworn in in front of her fellow officer husband, parents and two young children.

She thanked the crowd in the overflow training room at the Youngstown Police Department for the support they all gave her during her “really good experience over the last 11 or 12 years that I’ve been here.”

Her husband, Youngstown Patrolman Jacob Short, then pinned his badge on his jacket and congratulated her as their children, ages 6 and 2, watched with their grandparents.

As a detective sergeant, Short filled a job that had recently become vacant due to a retirement. She had the highest score in the promotion exam for the position.

She will begin her duties in a few months through the bidding process, she said. Detective Sergeants work as detectives, but also work as supervisors in the patrol division.

She has worked for the past nine years as an officer in the police department’s Special Victims Unit, which was formerly called the Family Investigative Services Unit.

Her father, Robert Banks, a retired captain with the Youngstown Fire Department, said he expected Hannah to get a promotion, calling her a “go getter.” Her mother Rita Banks said she was “extremely proud and also very nervous. But that’s what she wanted to do.”

In his remarks, Mayor Jamael Tito Brown said the job will involve some “new roles and responsibilities, but some of those old responsibilities will still be there. She’s still going to have to be a mother, a wife, a daughter, a granddaughter, but also make sure that no matter when you see her, you talk to her, just check in with her.”

Capt. Jason Simon, who oversees detectives, including officers in the Special Victims Unit, said a good detective uses “persistence, thinking outside the box and, just as importantly, the ability to empathize with your victims, more chosen when you are. in a unit like the Special Victims Unit.”

He said Short “meets and exceeds all of these qualities. She demonstrates initiative and integrity in her investigations.”