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 given tables and pie charts illustrate the police budget sources and the amount of money that they spent on 3 different categories in 2017 and 2018.

Overall

, it is evident that there was an upward trend

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the budget, which was mainly from the local taxes.

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, that money was mostly used for paying the police force. Regarding the financial allocation that the police received, the primary source was the National Government in both 2017 and 2018, with the amount of approximately

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178 units.

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the Local Taxes accounted for nearly a third of the total budget in both years, which was about 100 units.

Finally

, all other sources contributed only a

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amount and mostly stayed the same at 38

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during the 2 years. Turning to the expenses, salaries for staff and workers were the key source of expenditure in both years. In detail, it made up for three-fourths and two-thirds in 2017 and 2018 in turn.

In addition

, technology was greatly concerned so its rate in 2018 roughly doubled the 2017’s rate. Notably, the money allocated

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infrastructure and transport systems remained unchanged during the given period.