The tables 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

The presented table and pie charts describe the police forecasted financial

budget

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for 2017 and 2018

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sources of money and how it was spent. The

budget

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was offered from three sources which consist of the National government, Local taxes and others (e.g. grants).

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, the police spent money on three main groups of expenses (salaries for officers and staff, technology and building and transport).

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, the total

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in 2018 slightly increased from 2017 to approximately 13.9

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. The biggest portion of both years came from the National government amounting to 175.5

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in 2017 and 177.8

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in 2018.

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, Local taxes were the second biggest source which contributed around 91.2

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in 2017 and 102.3

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in 2018. The

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from other sources remained stable.

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, the proportion of spending in 2017 and 2018 was similar. The top position was salaries expenses followed by building and transport and technology relatively. The salaries expenses insignificantly decreased from 75% in 2017 to 69% in 2018.

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, technology costs rose from 8% to 14%. Meanwhile, building and transport fees stayed constant at 17%.