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.

The charts demonstrate data on the sources of

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budget and their expenditure in the

year

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2017 and 2018.

Overall

, all sources of police budget

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a

slightly

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increase and the capital

was mainly came

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from the National Government.

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, the majority of the spending was used on salaries for officers and staff. The total budget for the police

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increased considerably between 2017 and 2018 from 304.7

million

to 318.6

million

respectively. The money

was mainly come

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from two sources, National Government and Local taxes. The National Government contributed more than half of the total income which was 175.5

million

in 2017.

This

figure even rose to 177.8

million

in 2018. Meanwhile, the number of local taxes had the highest increase, more than one-ninth in 2018. Regarding the spending, three-fourths of the money was spent on

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salaries in 2017.

This

number ,

however

, decreased slightly by 6% from 75% to 69% in 2018. The loss of money had been used on developing technology, the value increased from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018

while

the cost of buildings and transport remained unchanged over a two-year period.