The table gives information about three primary sources of funding for a police force in a particular area of the UK between 2017 and 2018. Moreover, the two charts illustrate the percentages of the entire spending of this police force throughout these two years on three distinctive sectors.
Overall, it is apparent that the amount of money collected from three surveyed sources escalated at different rates. Also, this police force decreased the budget allocation for salaries in order to increase the percentage of spending on technologies.
Regarding the table, the amount of funding derived from the national government had increased modestly, it had remained the largest source of money. Specifically, 175.5 million pounds were funded in 2017, while around 177.8 million pounds were supplied in the following year. The amount of money gathered from local taxes saw a slight increase, with 91.2 million pounds in 2017 and 102.3 million pounds in 2018. Other sources including grants had provided more money from 2017 to 2018; however, the increase was extremely modest. This source had offered 38 million pounds and 38.5 million pounds in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
The pie chart witnesses notable changes regarding the expenditure of this police force. Salaries consumed the most the most resources in both years, although there had been a substantial decline in its proportion, from 75% to 69%. The need to improve technological tools among the police force had led to a slight increase in the expenditure which had accounted from 8% to 14% of the entire spending amount in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The budget allocation of buildings and transportation had remained unchanged at 17%.