The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas operates to provide education, training, research, and service to the Texas law enforcement community in order to inspire excellence in leadership and enhance the effective delivery of law enforcement services. By state statute, LEMIT provides training that is mandatory for every police chief in the state. Additionally, it offers training to police command staff in the form of a command college as well as specialty programs. Accordingly, LEMIT is an outstanding law enforcement partner. Working closely with LEMIT in our partnership network are the Arlington Police Department and the Brownsville Independent School District Police Department whose Chief Executives, like LEMIT's, also serve on the Texas RCPI's Goverrning Board.

Sam Houston State University serves as the TRCPI Higher Education partner. Founded in 1879 as one of the first public institutions of higher learning in the state, Sam Houston State University provides educational programming from the baccalaureate through the doctoral level. The Criminal Justice Center (CJC) houses the College of Criminal Justice, which has the largest policing faculty of any criminal justice or criminology program in the country. The CJC also hosts the Texas RCPI and more than a dozen other Institutes, Centers, Offices, and Programs devoted to training of and technical assistance for criminal justice professionals.