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 table and pie charts demonstrate data on the sources of the police budget and their expenditure in the years 2017 and 2018.

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, all sources of police budget experienced a slight rise and the capital mainly came 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 increased considerably between 2017 and 2018 from 304.7

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to 318.6

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

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in 2017.

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figure even rose to 177.8

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in 2018. Meanwhile, the number of local taxes had the highest growth, more than one-ninth in 2018. Regarding spending, three-fourths of the money was spent on salaries in 2017.

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, 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

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