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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows information about the

police

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budget in 2017 and 2018 and the charts provide data on the way of spending money on different items in the same years.

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, it can be seen that all sources of the

police

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budgets saw upward trends,

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distribution ways changed in different ways. Looking at the details, it appears that the national government was the most important source of

police

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budget in both 2017 and 2018, with 175.5 and 177.8 million

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respectively. The second highest source was the local taxes, which increased significantly, from 91.2 m

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in 2017 to 102.3 m

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in 2018 respectively. Other sources of

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budget like grants were the least on the list, with only 38 and 38.5 million

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in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In terms of spending money, salaries of officers and staff were the lead in both 2017 and 2018, but

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figure was the only item which saw a downward trend over the given period, from 75% to 69% respectively.

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, technology was at the bottom of the list with 8% and 14% in 2017 and 2018 respectively, which was the only item that saw an upward trend.

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, building a transport saw stable during the period at 17% in both years.