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.

A glance at the pie chart reveals the one British area of police avenue in terms of four categories and where the money was spent in 2017 and 2018.

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the least

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of expenditures covered in

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in 2017,

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, in 2018, the figure for

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was at its peak. It

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can be seen that the aspect of salaries was the highest spend

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to the technology, which was the least opted item. Looking at the first table, in 2017, the national government expenditure was highest, at 175.5m, which was five times higher than that of other sources. By 2018, the national government and other sources shared a similar

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of 177.8m and 38.5m respectively. The local taxes experienced an increase, reaching 102.3m over

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period, almost rising by 10m. Turning to the second pie chart, the least percentage of technology was 8% and 14% separately in 2017 and 2018.

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of salaries reached the peak of 75% and 69% in 2017 and 2018, which were

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higher than that of technology. The buildings and transport shared an equal

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, which accounted for 17% each.