The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain. The table show where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed.

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table chart illustrates the three different sources where the

police

budget was from, in a particular area in Britain, and the pie charts provide where it went between 2017 and 2018.

Overall

, the national government proved to be the main source providing money for

police

funds; meanwhile, the

police

budget was spent on salaries, which were given to officers and staff. The total amount of the

police

budget was 318.6

million

pounds

in 2018, which increased from 304.7

million

pounds

in 2017. The majority of money was from the national government, as it recorded the highest amount of funding in both 2017 and 2018 with 175.5

million

pounds

and 177.8m

million

pounds

, respectively.

Following

this

, local taxes rose the most among the three sources, by approximately 10

million

pounds

from 91.2

million

pounds

in 2017 to 102.3

million

pounds

in 2018,

while

other sources recorded a slight increase, from just 38

million

pounds

to 38.5

million

pounds

throughout the given time period.

Although

salaries were the popular expenditure as it accounted for 75% in 2017, it started to decrease to 69% in 2018.Technology,

however

, climbed discernibly from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018. Interestingly, buildings and transport remained unchanged at 17% throughout the given years.