The table and charts provided, reveals information about police funding in 2017 and 2018 in a particular area of UK. The table illustrate police budget sources and the charts show how it was spent. Numbers are in million pounds.
Overall, police budget has a slight growth, but it is worth mentioning that, this increase was allocated for technology instead of officers and staff salaries.
For start, police budget provided from 3 main sources: national government, local taxes and other sources like grant. All of these sources has increased a little. For example, national government pay 175.5 and 177.8 in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Also, local taxes rose from 91.2 in 2017 to 102.3 in a following year which was the biggest increase among the rest. Moreover, other sources like grant had a slight growth from 38 to 38.5 in a year after. Thus, the total budget in 2017 was 304.7 rich to 318.6 in 2018.
Turing to police spent, in 2017 three out of four of the whole budget was spent on wages(75%), and less than a one fifth was spent on building and transport (17%) and the rest allocated for technology (8%). In the following year, the amount of money which was spent on building and transport stood the same as previous year (17%), but wages decline 6% and reach to 69%. In addition, technology budget became almost double (14%).
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