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

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table chart below compares the police

budget

from different sources between 2017 and 2018,

whereas

the pie charts highlight how it was distributed over a period of 1 year.

Overall

, we can notice that the most outstanding source of the

budget

is the national government

in contrast

to others who invested much less.

Moreover

, from the pie charts, we can see that lots of budgets were spent on salaries which consist of officers and staff.

To begin

with, in 2017, the

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primary source of the

budget

was the national government which invested approximately 175.5

million

euros

and one year after it saw a modest increase

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about 2.3

million

euros

,

whereas

local taxes provided twice less with 91.2

million

euros

, but it increased steadily to 102.3

million

euros

.

In addition

, the smallest amount of money was received from other sources which consisted of only 38

million

euros

, which rose slightly to 500 hundred

euros

in 2018. From the pie charts, we can see that

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most part of the money from the

budget

was spent on salaries in both years respectively with 75% and 69% of the whole

budget

. Only 8% of the

budget

went to technology in 2017, but in 2018

this

percentage increased dramatically by 6%.

Therefore

, the percentage of spent money on buildings and transport stayed the same in both years.