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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.

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 charts illustrate the sources of
police
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 budget and its allocation in one British area in 2017 and 2018.
Overall
,
it is clear that
 there are
three
 categories of income for
police
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 budget with
total
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the total
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amount
 of
money
, in
million
pounds
, in the table, having the largest
amount
 of
money
 in National Government in both years, in
million
pounds
. Notably, the pie charts consist of
three
 segments, having the biggest proportions of wages for officers and staff. Turning to the details, there are
three
 categories of the table with the total sum of
money
, namely ‘National Government’, ‘Local Taxes’ and ‘Other sources’, where two out of
three
 items show the highest
amount
 of
money
. To be specific, the most
amount
 of
money
 came from the first item, which was the highest in both years, representing a slight increase up to 177.8
million
pounds
 in 2018. As for the second category, it had the largest difference in the given period, which was 11.1
million
pounds
.
Furthermore
, the
last
 category had
insignificant
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 rise, which was 38.5
million
pounds
 in the latter year. Summing up all
three
 categories, there was a slight rise
by
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 13.9
million
pounds
 in 2018.
According to
 the pie charts, there are
three
 segments, where the highest one belongs to the wages of police employees in 2017 and 2018, showing 75% and 69%, respectively. When ‘Buildings and transport’ remained unchanged in 2018, having 17%, ‘Technology’ had a marked rise
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 6%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Fiscal allocations
  • Revenue streams
  • Budgetary oversight
  • Expenditure
  • Financial appropriation
  • Government grants
  • Local taxation
  • Operational costs
  • Capital investment
  • Public safety
  • Crime prevention
  • Community policing
  • Resource allocation
  • Year-on-year comparison
  • Budgetary constraints
  • Fiscal year
  • Fund disbursement
  • Budget deficit/surplus
  • Trend analysis
  • Financial sustainability
  • Law enforcement funding
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