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 showed how it was distributed. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below illustrate the information on the police

budget

spent for 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain. In 2017, three-fourths of the

budget

given by the government was spent towards salaries among the officers and staff. Followed by 17% used on buildings and transport, and

lastly

, 8% was wasted on the development of technology. In 2018, the

budget

spent on salaries decreased by 6% to only 69% left out of the whole

budget

. The funds were allocated to technology development, which underwent a slight rise from 8% to 14%.

Last

but not least, the amount of money wasted on building and transport remained the same at 17%. In correlation to the table, in 2017, the majority of the funding was provided by the national government up to 175,5

million

pounds

.

Next,

local taxes with 91,2

million

pounds

, and

finally

, other sources of 38

million

pounds

, with a grand total of 304,7

million

pounds

.

Lastly

, in 2018, the amount of money given by the government experienced a slight increase of 2.3

million

pounds

bringing it up to 277,8

million

pounds

. Moving forward, a massive leap of 11,1

million

from local taxes, and the

last

, a slight rise from other sources of 0,5

million

pounds

bringing it up to 38,5

million

pounds

, implying the grand total up to 318,6

million

pounds

, 13,7

million

higher than the previous year.

To sum up

, in 2017, the majority of the

budget

had to be spent on salaries

due to

the high number of employees.

On the contrary

, in 2018, the total of

the

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workers had decreased, enabling research and development to get more funding compared to the previous year.