The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2018 in one area of Britain. The table shows where the money came f the charts show how it was distributed. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main featu make comparisons where relevant.

The table reveals

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the

budget

of police from different sources in 2017 and 2018 and the pie chart illustrates how the

money

was spent.

Overall

, it can be seen that most of the

budget

was from the national government in both 2017 and 2018, and most

money

was spent on salaries.

To begin

with, the tables show that there was an increase in the

budget

from the national government in 2018. Most notably, it can be seen that the local taxes comprised a greater increase in the

budget

in 2018 than in 2017. The

money

given from other sources to the police was 3.5m in 2018. The pie chart illustrates that 75% of the

money

was spent on salaries in 2017;

however

, it was reduced to 60% in 2018.The point worth noting is that

money

spent on buildings and transport remained the same in both years,

while

there was an increase of 6% in the

budget

that was spent on technology in 2018.