The table and chart 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 given table and bar charts illustrate the data on police budget in a region of Great Britain between 2017 and 2018. While the table depicts three different sources of this budget, bar charts give information on the expenditure of this budget based on three sectors in this period.
After initial observation, it becomes clear that the huge amount of money for police budget came from National Government in both years while other sources including grants were the least among three sources. As for bar charts, most of this budget was spent on salaries meanwhile technology received the lowest amount of money in 2017 and 2018.
175.5 million pounds of National government was transferred to Police budget in 2017, making a huge distributor and this trend continued in 2018, having 177.8 million pounds. This was followed by Local Taxes, transfer was 91.2 and 102.3 million pounds in 2017 and 2018. Grants were the last source of this budget, making up 38 and 38.5 million respectively, in two years. Totality was 304.7 and 318.6 million, making a noticeable change during these two years.
In terms of distribution, three-quarters of budget was spent on salaries of officers and staff in 2017, which was 6% higher than 2018. In contrast, the same percentage 17% was used for buildings and transport in 2017 and 2018. However, technology received the least money, having 8% and 14% respectively in these years.