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.

The chart and the table illustrate critical evidence about the budget of the police department gained in 2017 and 2018 from various sources in one area of Britain,

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what they spent the money on.

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unit is measured in both millions and percentages.

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, the graph clearly shows that 2018 had the majority of the budget, which was 318.6

million

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, unlike 2017, which was 304.7

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.

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the sources, both years have immense differences in the money they get. Starting with the National Government, in the

first

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year

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, they were quite similar to each other; in the

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2017, they got 175.5

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and 177.8

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in the second

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.

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, the Local Taxes resources had significant growth from 91.2m to 102.3m.

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but not least, the other sources (e.g. grants ) are 38m and 38.5, respectively. The total was 304.7

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for the

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year

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and became 318.6

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in 2018. In terms of how they spent the money. At

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first

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, they both spent the larger amount on Salaries (officers and staff), spent about 75% in the

first

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year

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, and

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the percentage reduced to 69% only.

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, they spent the exact same percentage on buildings and transport about 17% in the two years.

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, in the

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2017, they spent only 8% on technologies, but in 2018, the percentage grew moderately to 14%.