DPS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Dps (band), a Japanese alt rock band
  • Damage per second, in video games
  • Dead Poets Society, a 1989 film
  • The Dead Pop Stars, a Japanese hard rock band
  • Double page spread, two facing pages in a periodical with connected content
  • Dramatists Play Service, an American theatrical publisher

Government, law and politics

Government agencies

  • Department for Protection and Security, France
  • Department of Public Safety, in US state and local government
  • Public Safety Canada, (formally Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), Canada

Policing units

  • Diplomatic Protection Squad, New Zealand Police
  • Dorozhno-Patrulnaya Sluzhba (), Russia's road traffic police
  • Directorate of Professional Standards, London Metropolitan Police

Political parties

  • Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, a political party in Montenegro
  • Department of Protection-Security (Département Protection et Sécurité), a branch of the National Front (FN) political party of France
  • Dvizhenie za Prava i Svobodi (, ДПС), known as the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a political party in Bulgaria

Other uses in government and law

  • Desha Putra Sammanaya, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
  • Designated Premises Supervisor, in British law the person with day-to-day responsibility for a premises where alcohol is sold
  • Deposit Protection Service, a company authorised by the UK government to run Tenancy deposit schemes

Schools

United States

  • Dalton Public Schools, Georgia
  • Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan
  • Decatur Public Schools District 61, Illinois
  • Denver Public Schools, Colorado
  • Detroit Public Schools, Michigan
  • Durham Public Schools, North Carolina

Elsewhere

  • DPS Academy, a now defunct school in the United Arab Emirates
  • Delhi Public School, a type of school in India
  • Delhi Private School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Delhi Private School, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • Divisional Public School, Lahore and Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • Dawood Public School, Karachi, Pakistan

Science

  • Dps (DNA-binding proteins from starved cells), a class of proteins
  • 2,2'-Dipyridyldisulfide, an oxidizing agent and a reagent for forming 2-pyridinethiol esters in the Corey-Nicolaou macrolactonization
  • Distinct population segment, a population considered for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
  • Division for Planetary Sciences within the American Astronomical Society

Technology

  • Data Processing Systems Engineer, a flight engineer responsible for data processing systems in a space flight
  • Descent Propulsion System, a rocket engine used in Apollo's Lunar Module
  • Degrees per second, a unit for measuring angular velocity
  • Direct Print Standard, part of PictBridge standard
  • Display PostScript, an on-screen display system
  • Dynamic positioning system, a means to automatically maintain a ship's position and heading by using her own propellers and thrusters
  • DPS protocol, a quantum key distribution protocol
  • DPS (Data Processing System), the designation of several lines of computer in the List of Groupe Bull products

Other uses

  • DPS Compound, Baguio, Philippines
  • Deltic Preservation Society, a British railway preservation group
  • Doctor of Professional Studies, a professional doctorate
  • Ngurah Rai International Airport (IATA code), on Bali, Indonesia

See also

  • DP (disambiguation)