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.

The table illustrates the police’s expenditure in which the money came from and both pie charts depict the distribution of the budget in 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain.

Overall

, there was an upward trend in all three different sources,

while

the proportion of salaries experienced a dramatic decrease.

According to

the table, the expenditure of national governments took the lead throughout the entire time frame,

went

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up from 175,5m in 2017 to 177,8m in 2018.

However

, local taxes experienced a significant rise,

increased

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increasing

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by 10m in 2018 compared to 2017, the amount of money was just about 91,2m. The figure for other sources witnessed

a

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growth too, but not considerably,

rose

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rising

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about 0,5m

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after a year. As regards the charts, it can be seen that the distribution of money spent on technology climbed gradually from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018,

while

the percentage of buildings and transport still remained unchanged in both 2 years.

On the other hand

, the proportion of salaries declined substantially, only

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for 69% in 2018 compared to 75% in 2017.