The 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 provided table illustrates the total amount of money from 3 distinguishable sources,

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the accompanying pie chart represents the

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of spending money for police in one area in the United Kingdom between 2 different years: 2017 and 2018. Looking more closely at the trend for the graphs, it can be clearly seen that amount of money provided by each source and the

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of distribution remain relatively stable.

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the table, in 2017, the police had a total budget of 304.7

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euros

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there was a slight rise to 318.6

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euros

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in 2018. The majority of the budget was sourced from the national government, with an increase from 175.5

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euros

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to 177.8

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euros

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. Out of 3 sources, local taxes saw the largest growth from 91.2

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euros

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to 102.3

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euros

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. Meanwhile, there was only a 0.5

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euro increase for other sources of income to 38.5

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euros

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in 2017. Based on the pie chart,

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the

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of wages for officers and staff revealed a moderate drop from 75% in 2017 to 69% in 2018, it still accounted for the highest

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of expenditure.

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, the technology percentage grew approximately

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twofold to 14% in 2018,

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the figure for building and transport remain stable over a period,

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