The table depicts the attribution of the police budget in a particular British region in 2017 and 2018 (recorded in £m). Meanwhile, the two pie charts illustrate the distribution of the aforementioned budget into 3 categories.
Overall, it can be seen that while all sources have grown, the same proportion was spent on buildings and transportation.
Looking at the table, in 2017, headed the list was the amount of money obtained from the National Government, which made up half of the total, figuring at 175.5m. Following this were local taxes and other sources at 91.2m and 38m respectively. Concerning 2018, despite having witnessed the highest growth of 11.1m, local taxes remained second place. Meanwhile, national government and other sources such as grants increased slightly to 177.8m and 38.5m correspondingly. The sum of which has rose moderately to 318.6m.
Regarding the pie charts, in 2017, salaries made up three-fourth of the budget, following by technology and buildings and transport at 8% and 17% in the mentioned order. Despite roughly doubled in the following year, accounting for 14%, technology remained at the bottom. In comparison to which, the amount of money spent on buildings and transport was slightly higher at 17% and headed the list was salaries for officers and staff at 69%.