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 comaprisions where relevant.

The table depicts the annual budget for the police for the years 2017 and 2018 and the pie charts illustrate the expenditures in one area of Britain.

Overall

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, the budget for police from different sources changed slightly in 2018.

Moreover

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, the sector where the money was spent like technology had faced a dramatic incline here in 2018. On the one hand, for the year 2017-18, the sources like the National Government and other sources increased by a tiny fraction, like 155.5m to 177.8 and 38m to 38.5m respectively.

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, the local taxes surged by almost 11% and became the biggest budget-holding source in 2018. After all, the National Government sourced the most budget among all in both 2017 and 2018.

On the other hand

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, in 2017, the most money was spent in the salaries sector which was reduced in the next year by 6%, leaving them at 75% and 69% respectively.

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, the technology sector almost doubled in a year from 8% to 14%. Buildings and transport remained the same in both years.