The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one are of Britain. The police shows where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main feature, and make comparisions where relevant.

The table and charts show the information on the

police

budget and how they were distributed in the years 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2017, the most funding the

police

received was from the National Government of Britain which provided 175.5

million

pounds

out of the total funding of 304.7

million

pounds

. The second most was from local taxes which were collected from the people of Britain

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contributed to 91.2

million

pounds

in funds meanwhile, other sources like grants only contributed 38

million

. In 2018, there were no big differences in the allocations of funds by the National government and by local taxes as they contributed 177.8

million

pounds

and 38.5

million

pounds

respectively followed by Local taxes which showed a significant increase of 11.1

million

pounds

The expenses of the

police

force

also

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not changed much during 2017 and 2018. The only major difference in the expenditure was

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in spending

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technology during the year 2018 by 8 percentage points as compared to 2017. The spending of money on buildings and transport remained the same in

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both years at 17%

while

the money contributing to the salaries of

police

officers and staff was decreased by 6 percentage points.