The table illustrates the data on the police budget in which the money came from and the two pie charts describe the distribution of the amount of money in the two years, 2017 and 2018 in an area of Britain. Overall, there was an upward trend in all three different sources while the money spent on salaries was always the majority of contribution.
Looking into more details, the highest amount of money on the police budget belonged to the ‘National Government’, 175.5 million pounds in 2017 and it kept rising to 177.8 million pounds. This was followed by ‘Local Taxes’, at 91.2 million pounds in 2017, after one year, it increased significantly to 102.3 million pounds.
In terms of how the money was spent, the majority of the police budget goes to salaries which was for officers and staff, dropping slightly from 75% in 2017 to 69% in 2018. Meanwhile, the proportion of ‘Buildings and transport’ remained constant, at 17% each year. An opposite pattern can be seen in the category of technology, its figure rose sharply from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018, which was always the lowest rate during the given period.