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 two pictures reveal, the police

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in a district of Britain and how the money was spent from 2017 to 2018.

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, it was clear that the main source of police cost was from National Government, and most of them were used for the salary of the officers and staff. Looking into the details of the table, more than 50%

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was allocated by National Government, and there was a moderate increase in 2018 by 22,3m pound sterling. Meanwhile, local taxes contributed less than a third of the total

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in that period, and they had an increase of around 21,1m pound sterling. Other sources of that

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remained insignificant for the two years. Turning to the pie diagram, a third-quarter of the money was distributed for the honour to the officers and staff in 2017, and it fell by 6% in the next year. There was a growth of allocation in the technology of 6%

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the

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for buildings and transport was unchanged in the period of time.