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 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, 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 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, 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 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 (IATA code), on Bali, Indonesia