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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting he main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given data compares the source of the police budget between 2017 and 2018 in a particular area of Britain

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its share of spending. Clearly, the police received a greater amount of capital in 2018 than in 2017

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both spending amounts in 2017 and 2018 were dominated by salaries for officers and staff. In 2017, the

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police budget was 304,7 million pounds with the main sources coming from the national government, followed by local taxes and other sources. The total figures increased in the next year to 318,8 million pounds with a significant addition of 11,1 million in the local taxes fund

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the two other sources of income were not The troops used the given budget to fund their personnel salary which accounted for 75% of spending allocation in 2017 and was slightly decreased to 69% of

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cost in 2018.

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, the usage for technology purposes had a 6% increase from 8% of the total cost realization in 2017 unlike the allocated cost for buildings and transportation remained the same throughout the year.