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

The table provided illustrates the sources where the total

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of

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for Britain police came from in the years 2017 and 2018. The pie charts

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depict the

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of

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that was spent on different aspects including salaries, technology, and buildings and transport, in the same period of time.

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, it is noticeable from the table that Britain's police budget mainly came from national governments in 2017, and remained the same afterwards in 2018. The charts are

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showing that a large proportion of

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was spent on salaries in both years.

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with the table, in the year 2017, 175.5

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pounds was the total budget for police offices in the UK, and the

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provided by local taxes was significantly lower than

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with 91.2

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. In 2018,

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, the

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of

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provided by the national government slightly increased and reached almost 180

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pounds, which caused the total

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to experience an upward trend reaching the

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of 318.6

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. The pie charts,

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, showcase that a considerable

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of

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budget has been given to officers and staff as their source of outcome, with 75% in 2017.

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percentage,

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, had slightly decreased by 6% a year after that, making room for technology purposes to grow by 7% to become 14% in 2018. The

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of

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spent on buildings and transport,

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, remained the same with 17% in both years.