With staffing and resources at a minimum, training and education can sometimes be nudged to the margins of the law enforcement agenda. However, in an increasingly complex world, agencies can ill afford for this to be the case.

A silver bullet solution may be online education. As are many industries in the Internet-connected world, online education is evolving and may work especially well for the law enforcement and public safety communities, thanks in large part to the greater flexibility it offers. Online education programs are springing up everywhere, both from for-profit companies and from traditional colleges that are expanding their campuses into the digital world.