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 depicts data about resources of the police budget in 2017 and 2018, and the pie illustrates the budget use. Looking from an

overall

perspective,

it is clear that

the amount of budget rose

as well as

the percentage of technology. Seeing the first graph, three sources went up in the period given. Local taxes, which experienced the biggest increase stood at 91.2

million

in 2017 and

then

reached 102.3

million

in 2018.

On the other hand

, there were just 0.3

million

and 0.5

million

growths in national government and other sources respectively. In terms of the second chart,

although

the main feature did not change in two years, the rate of technology grew up noticeably. The component of technology accounted for 8% which was the lowest of the three factors in 2017 and almost doubled in 2018 (14%).

Conversely

, salaries consisted of 75% in 2017 after which it decreased by 6% in the period.

This

still remained the biggest factor in these years.

Furthermore

, the remaining stabilized at 17% between 2017 and 2018.