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

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the data

of

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Police

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Budget

&

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and allocation

Allocation

for 2017 &

2018

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and 2018

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. The table shows

Police

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the Police

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budget

on

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2017 &

2018

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and its sources,

while

the pie chart

present

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the spending

allocation

of the

budget

.

According to

the table, there are 13.9m increases

on

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police

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the police

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budget

. The increases mainly came from National Government and Local Taxes funds. Both

2017

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the 2017

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and 2018

budget

funding percentage shows similar results. In 2017,

National

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Government supported around 60% of the

police

budget

that year,

while

local taxes and other sources supported

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30% and 10% of the

budget

respectively. Meanwhile, for

2018

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the 2018

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budget

, National Government funded around 56% of the whole yearly

budget

, followed by local taxes

who

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contributed

for

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32% and other sources

who

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contributed

for

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12% of the whole

police

budget

in 2018 Meanwhile, the pie chart shows the

allocation

of the

police

budget

in 2017 and 2018. There are 3 main

allocation

of the

budget

, which is salaries for officers and

staffs

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, technology, and building and

transports

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transport

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. Both

2017

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and 2018

allocation

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mainly for salaries, which

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75% and 69% of the

budget

.

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salaries

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salary

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allocation

dropped, technology

allocation

increased from 8% in 2017 and 14% in 2018. Building and transportation

remain

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the same in 2017 and 2018 with

17

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%

allocation

from the yearly

budget

.