DPS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Dps (band) Dps is a Japanese rock band under the Giza Studio label. They've formed in 2017 and made major debut with the single "Timeline". The song served as an theme song to the anime television series Detective Conan. History In May 2016, Naoki partici ...

, a Japanese alt rock band *

Damage per second Since the origin of video games in the early 1970s, the video game industry, the players, and surrounding culture have spawned a wide range of technical and slang terms. 0–9 A ...

, in video games * ''

Dead Poets Society ''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, and tells ...

'', a 1989 film *

The Dead Pop Stars The Dead Pop Stars (stylized as THE DEAD P☆P STARS) is a Japanese visual kei rock band formed in 1992 by ex-Kamaitachi drummer Kenzi. Its current line-up consists of original members Aki and Kenzi on vocals and drums respectively, Hideto and K ...

, a Japanese hard rock band * Double page spread, two facing pages in a periodical with connected content *

Dramatists Play Service Dramatists Play Service is a theatrical-publishing and licensing house imprint of Broadway Licensing Global. Established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Authors' Representatives, DPS publishes English-la ...

, an American theatrical publisher

Government, law and politics

Government agencies

Department for Protection and Security The Department for Protection and Security (DPS) () is the security branch of the National Rally (France), National Rally (RN) political party of France (formerly the "National Front"), which depends directly on the RN's president and is led by ...

, France * Department of Public Safety, in US state and local government *

Public Safety Canada Public Safety Canada (PS; , SP), legally incorporated as the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (PSEPC), is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for (most) matters of public safety, emergency management, nat ...

, (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 The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, England is organised into five main directorates, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner, and four civilian-staffed support departments previously under the umbrella of Met Headquarters, each headed ...

, London Metropolitan Police

Political parties

Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY) ** Democratic Par ...

, a political party in Montenegro *

Department of Protection-Security Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military * Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

(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 The Desha Putra Sammanaya ( Sinhala: දේශ පුත්‍ර සම්මානය ''dēśa putra sammānaya''; Son of the Nation Award) is a military decoration awarded as a wound medal to servicepersons of the Military of Sri Lanka, equ ...

, 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 The Dearborn City School District is a school district that includes the entire city of Dearborn, Michigan and a small portion of Dearborn Heights, both in Greater Detroit. Dearborn Public Schools is the third largest school district in Michiga ...

, Michigan *

Decatur Public Schools District 61 Decatur Public Schools District 61 is a public unit school district in Macon County, Illinois. it was the 26th largest school district in Illinois, and had one pre-kindergarten/early learning center, four full K-8 schools, eleven elementary sc ...

, Illinois *

Denver Public Schools The School District No. 1 in the City and County of Denver and State of Colorado, more commonly known as Denver Public Schools (DPS), is the public school system in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States. History In 1859, Owen ...

, Colorado *

Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that serves Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, and high school students in Highland Park, Michigan. The district, which replaced the original Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in 2016, ...

, Michigan *

Durham Public Schools The Durham Public Schools district is a public school district in Durham, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina. Formed in 1992 with the merger of Durham, North Carolina, Durham's previous two school districts, it is 8th largest school sys ...

, North Carolina

Elsewhere

* DPS Academy, a now defunct school in the United Arab Emirates *

Delhi Public School Delhi Public School Society or DPS Society, is a chain of schools . The descriptor "Public School" references the model of the long-established public schools in the United Kingdom. The Delhi Public School Society is the administrative authorit ...

, a type of school in India *

Delhi Private School, Dubai Delhi Private School, Dubai (DPS Dubai; ) is a private, co-educational day school located in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The school offers the Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE curriculum and primarily serves the Indian expat ...

, 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) DNA-binding proteins from starved cells (Dps) are bacterial proteins that belong to the ferritin superfamily and are characterized by strong similarities but also distinctive differences with respect to "canonical" ferritins. Dps proteins are par ...

, 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 {{no footnotes, date=February 2018 A distinct population segment (DPS) is the smallest division of a taxonomic species permitted to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. ''Species'', as defined in the Act for listing purposes, is a ...

, a population considered for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act *

Division for Planetary Sciences The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) is a division within the American Astronomical Society (AAS) devoted to Solar System research. It was founded in 1968. The first organizing committee members were: Edward Anders, Lewis Branscomb, Josep ...

within the American Astronomical Society

Technology

Data Processing Systems Engineer Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations Centre. Flight controllers work at computer consoles a ...

, 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 In physics, angular velocity (symbol or \vec, the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as the angular frequency vector,(UP1) is a pseudovector representation of how the angular position or orientation of an object changes with time, i ...

Direct Print Standard PictBridge is a historical computing Technical standard, industry standard introduced in 2003 from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for direct printing. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a computer p ...

, part of PictBridge standard *

Display PostScript Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language to generate on-screen graphics. PS was originally developed for computer printing, to which DPS adds a number of fe ...

, an on-screen display system *

Dynamic positioning Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompas ...

system, a means to automatically maintain a ship's position and heading by using her own propellers and thrusters *

DPS protocol 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 ...

, a quantum key distribution protocol * DPS (Data Processing System), the designation of several lines of computer in the

List of Groupe Bull products A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

Other uses

* DPS Compound, Baguio, Philippines *

Deltic Preservation Society The Deltic Preservation Society is a railway preservation group based in England. The society is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the remaining Class 55 "Deltic" diesel locomotives operated by British Rail from the 1960s to the ...

, a British railway preservation group *

Doctor of Professional Studies The Doctor of Professional Studies (or sometimes awarded as Doctorate in Professional Practice) (most commonly DProf, DProfPrac or ProfD, but also available as DProfSt, ProfD and DPS) is a doctoral degree for experienced professionals who wish to ...

, a professional doctorate *

Ngurah Rai International Airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport , also known as Denpasar International Airport, is the main international airport of Bali, Indonesia. Located from Downtown Denpasar, it serves the Denpasar metropolitan area and the whole island of Bal ...

(IATA code), on Bali, Indonesia