The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one are of Britian. The table shows where the money came from and the charts show how it was distribiuted.
The chart indicates where the police
budget
came from and how the money was used in 2017 and 2018.
For the incoming, the total budget
was increased from 304.7 million
to 318.6 million
. There are two main resources which are national government supports and local taxes. It is worth mentioning that the national government provided more than half of the total incoming, which was 175.5 million
in 2017 and 177.8 million
in 2018. Meanwhile, the local taxes rose at a remarkable speed, an increase of more than one-ninth.
When it comes to how the money was spent, the percentage of buildings and transport was constantly 17% in these two years. However
, the budget
allocated for technology increased from 8% to 14% in 2018, nearly doubling from the previous year. On the contrary
, the public budget
spent on salaries for officers and staff, which occupied the majority of the money, decreased to 69% from 75% in 2018.Submitted by yaopeilin1016 on
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