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 given table presents data about how the money was spent on the police

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in

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area of Britain between 2017 and 2018 and pie charts illustrate how it was distributed.

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, it can be seen that the major part of the

budget

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was spent on officers and staff salaries and the National Government is top of the list of police budgets in both two years. Looking at details, the table shows three sections of the police

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. The first

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is the National Government with 175.5 million in 2017 and 177.8

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in 2018 with a steady increase in the head of the list and the second

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is Local Taxes with 91.2

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and 102.3

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in 2017 and 2018

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the

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one

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is about Other parts with 38

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in 2017 and 38.5

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in 2018. If we look at the pie charts, a big part of the money was spent on salaries with 75% in 2017 but we can see decreasing to 69% in 2018 and

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17% of

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budget

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was spent on Building and Transport

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percentage is steady in both years and

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shows a significant increase in 2018 with 7% higher than past year.