Essex's Police and Crime Commissioner has demanded an urgent meeting with the Home Secretary after two weeks of protests outside a migrant hotel in Epping.
Roger Hirst has now asked to see Yvette Cooper on Monday to request The Bell Hotel be shut down after penning her a letter three days ago.
Hirst had warned the hotel is an inappropriate location to house asylum seekers - and has warned the unrest has cost his force "hundreds of thousands of pounds".
"The Bell is not the right place for a hotel for asylum seekers," the PCC vowed.
"It's in the middle of a home counties market town and these are people who have a very different life experience arriving there.
"There are schools in the vicinity as well. It is not the right place.
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|'The Bell is not the right place for a hotel for asylum seekers,' Roger Hirst vowed
"It's costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's a lot of police overtime. This is not what we need to be happening on a regular basis in the town.
"It's a diversion of resources from what police officers should be doing."
So far, protests and counter-protests have broken out on July 13, 17, 20 and 24 - with hundreds of people descending on the Essex town alongside, or against, concerned parents outside The Bell.
On Sunday, three people were arrested:
27-year-old woman from Deptford, thought to be a counter-protester, on suspicion of criminal damage and a public order offence;A 52-year-old man from Loughton on suspicion of a public order offence in connection with verbal abuse shouted toward counter-protesters;- A 53-year-old woman, also from Loughton, on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence connected with a previous protest.
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|Essex PCC Roger Hirst has requested an urgent meeting with Yvette Cooper to discuss the chaos
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As many as 1,000 people demonstrated outside The Bell on Sunday, prompting hundreds of officers from Essex Police, the Metropolitan Police and forces across England to be sent in.
With tensions flaring, Essex imposed restrictions on the protests requiring the two groups be separated on designated sites - and banned anyone from wearing face coverings.
The force also slapped a dispersal order around the entirety of Epping town centre and nearby transport hubs between midday on Sunday and 8am on Monday.
The order gives police powers to remove anyone suspected of anti-social behaviour.
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|As many as 1,000 people demonstrated outside The Bell on Sunday
The Bell found itself at the centre of local fury after an Ethiopian migrant was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl just eight days after arriving in Britain.
Essex Police said there had since been an "escalation of violence" in the weeks following the Ethiopian's court appearance.
But on Sunday, the force's Chief Superintendent Simon Anslow said: "I want to thank those who attended for the peaceful nature of both protests.
"Our role is to ensure that you can express your democratic right to protest safely and lawfully and we had a proportionate and robust plan in place to ensure that could happen.
"I am pleased that today has passed off without incident and I am grateful to our colleagues from other forces for their support."