e table and charts detailed below give information about the police budget in 2017 and 2018 in on area of Britain. The table illustrates where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed.

The given table presents how the police budget was funded in 2017 and in 2018

while

the charts indicate how those funds were allocated.

Firstly

,

it is clear that

the total budget rosed from 304,7

million

pounds

in 2017 to 318.6

million

pounds

in 2018. The primary source for both years was the national government which offered 175.5

million

pounds

in 2017

while

there was a slight increase in 2018 up to 177.8

million

pounds

.

According to

the table, the contribution of local taxes soared from 81,2

million

pounds

to 102.3

million

pounds

. Other sources

such

as grabs stayed almost unchanged with a small rise from 38

million

pounds

in 2017 to 38.5

million

pounds

the next year. When it comes to the distribution of the funds the biggest expenditure by far in both years was officers' and staff salaries that were declined from 75% to 69%. On the contrary technology funding almost doubled from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018.

Finally

, the spending on buildings and transport stayed unaltered constituting 17 % of the budget allocation.