# DPS

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 (Russian: Дорожно-Патрульная Служба, ДПС), 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 (Bulgarian: Движение за Права и Свободи, 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