DPS explained

DPS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Dps (band), a Japanese alt rock band
• Damage per second, in online multiplayer 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 (ru|Дорожно-Патрульная Служба, ДПС|link=no), 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 (bg|Движение за Права и Свободи|link=no, 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)