The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain. The table shows where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed.  Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table and charts

displays

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the sources of

police

budget

in 2017 and 2018 in a British area, and in which ways the budgets were spent. It can be seen from the table that

police

budgets of

this

particular area came from three sources: national government, local taxes and others. The government provided the largest proportion of the

budget

, namely 175.5

million

pounds

in 2017 and 177.8

million

pounds

in 2018. The second largest provider of the

budget

was local taxes, the amount of which used on

police

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budget

largely increased from 91.2

million

pounds

in 2017 to 102.3

million

pounds

in 2018. The amount of

budget

from other resources remained nearly equal in the two years, around 38

million

pounds

. In total, the

police

system had

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higher

budget

in 2018 compared to the year before. As

of

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how the budgets were spent,

it is clear that

in both years, salaries for officers and staff accounted for the largest proportion of the spending, and the percentage decreased from 75% to 69% in 2018. More money

were

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used on technology in 2018, and the proportion rose to 14% from 8%. The percentage of

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budget

spent on buildings and transport stayed the same, which was 17%, in 2017 and 2018.