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 comparisons where relevant

The table and pie chart compare police budgets and expenditures in a particular area of Britain in 2017 and 2018.

Overall

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, in 2018, the total income increased

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the spending proportion changed at the expense of technological developments. Three different financial resources can be observed in the table.

National

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The National

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Government raised its financial support from 175.5m in 2017 to 177.8m in 2018.

On the other hand

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, local taxes increased considerably from 91.2m to 102.3m in the second year.

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Other sources ,

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as grants, did not show a dramatic change and just moved from 38m to 38.5m. All upward financing led to a total budget of 318.6m in 2018.

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, there were three expenditure categories; building and transport spending remained the same over the mentioned period

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17% of

income

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the income

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source.

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in 2017, 75% of the money was allocated to police officers and staff salaries , which fell to 69% in 2018,

this

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happened at the expense of investment in technological development

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a rising budget for technology from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018.