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The document discusses data from a police budget in Britain from 2017 to 2018. It shows that: 1) Funding came primarily from the national government and local taxes, both of which increased over the period. 2) The majority of spending (around 75% in 2017 and 69% in 2018) went to salaries for police officers and staff. 3) Spending on buildings and transport remained steady at 17% each year, while spending on technology increased sharply from 8% to 14%.

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Task 1

The document discusses data from a police budget in Britain from 2017 to 2018. It shows that: 1) Funding came primarily from the national government and local taxes, both of which increased over the period. 2) The majority of spending (around 75% in 2017 and 69% in 2018) went to salaries for police officers and staff. 3) Spending on buildings and transport remained steady at 17% each year, while spending on technology increased sharply from 8% to 14%.

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Task 1:

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 of year 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 ‘National

Government’, 175.5 million pounds in 2017 and it kept rising to 177.8 million pounds. Thus was

followed by ‘Local Taxes’, at 91.2 million pounds in 2017, after one year, it increase significantly to

102.3 million pounds.

In term of the how the money was spent, the majority of 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 constantly, 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.


Task 2:

Mobile phones, nowadays, contains essential features with entertainment also. There has been a

large growth seen in usage hours of smartphones among youngsters. There are several reasons

behind this situation and I find this development more beneficial than negative. Both the reasons

and my view is elaborated further.

The first reason for overusage of smart devices by youngsters is the social benefit they provide.

The smart phone connected with internet opens up the large possibilities, from creating new friends

to communicating with them over social media. For instance, a child in my neighbourhood chats

for hours with his school friends over Facebook (a social media) and also spend time over online

video sharing phone application. Moreover, the mobile gaming, specially multiplayer games, is

another major reason for the situation. Children plays different kind of games over mobile for the

entertainment purpose and they involve themselves in games in such a manner, that they forget

about the timing and other work to do.

However, I believe that smartphones have also increased the knowledge of pupils. It has developed

some important social skills, such as communication skill, team work and many more, by allowing

them to work and play in groups, without the restriction of distance. In addition, children can

learn through internet by watchin online videos and reading articles, which ultimately helps them

in their studies as well as language skills. For example, whenever my niece require to know about

something, he searches it over the internet and learns from it. Moreover, multiplayer online gaming

improves their multitasking ability and it also gives them a competitive environment

Overall, I agree that overusage of smartphones on regular basis is harmful for them, but if given

proper guidance, mobile phones can help them in learning some life-long skills.

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