The table in the above image shows the source of money for the police budget. The chart shows how it was spent. Both of these images capture data from the year 2017 to 2018.
The given table and depicted pie chart illustrate resources of the
police
budget
and how the budget
was spent in an area of Britain in 2017 and 2018.
Overall
, as is observed the police
budget
was raised mostly due to
the growth of Local Taxes. Moreover
, even though the proportion of Salaries decreased, the amount of money spent on the Technology section rose remarkably.
The police
budget
was made up of three sources namely, National Government, Local Taxes, and Other resources. The amount of the National Government fund was 175.5m in 2017 and it rose by almost 2m in 2018. The local Taxes resource number was 91.2m and it saw a significant increase and reached 102.3m in 2018. the amount of the Other sources was
38m which remained stable and did not change much. Change the verb form
were
Consequently
, the total police
budget
rose by nearly 14m and peaked at 318.6m in 2018.
The expenses pie charts compare the ways of spending the budget
. In 2017, 75 per cent of the money was spent on paying the Salaries of officers and staff, while
this
figure in 2018 dipped to just 69%. Furthermore
, the proportion of the budget
for the technology section was 8 per cent which went up sharply to 14% in the next year. In addition
, the percentage of the budget
which was spent on Building and transport stayed stable in both years at 17 per cent.Submitted by sepehr.kahvand on
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