The cost of policing protests outside a city hotel this summer have been revealed.
Norfolk Police has had a presence outside the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe, Norwich, regularly in recent months.
This has included weekly gatherings of hundreds of people, some protesting about the housing of migrants at the hotel and some protesting in opposition.
The BBC has learned the cost of policing has been an average of about £56,000 per protest.
A Norfolk Police spokeswoman said, ahead of Sunday's protest at the 81-bedroom hotel, that policing the protests had cost almost £169,000 in August.
She added that the costings were a mixture of standard duty time and overtime, with staff regularly having rest days cancelled at short notice as well.
The Bowthorpe hotel, operated by Best Western, is one of hundreds in the UK that are closed to other guests to house about 32,000 asylum seekers.
The latest Home Office figures, for the end of June, showed a total of 32,059 migrants living in hotels - which was up 8% year-on-year but down 43% from the peak of 56,042 in September 2023.
These were also broken down by local authority area, showing that 207 asylum seekers were housed temporarily in Norwich hotels in June, up 46 from three months earlier.
A smaller number of protests were held outside the Park Hotel, in Diss, as the Home Office proposed replacing families housed there with single men.
However, the government has since given way to strong opposition and decided to stop housing migrants there, with the hotel's owners planning to refurbish and reopen it to the public.
There were 68 asylum seekers housed in hotels in South Norfolk, up 32 from the end of March.
In recent weeks, Norfolk Police has been proactively sharing information about planned protests at the Brook Hotel to encourage peaceful protest.
While there have been a small number of arrests, rival protesters have largely been kept apart by police officers as efforts have been made to keep the busy Dereham Road clear.
Ahead of a protest on Friday, 8 August, Norfolk Police released a statement making clear that the "right to protest is a key part of our democracy" but that a "robust policing operation" would be in place.
This included the power to make an arrest if face coverings were not removed when asked to do so.
Evidence gatherers have also been deployed at the protests, with footage reviewed to see if offences have been committed.
Four men were arrested following the most recent protest outside the Brook Hotel, on Sunday.
One man, in his 40s, was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and bailed until 27 November.
Two men in their 20s and a man in his 40s were also arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and common assault in relation to a previous assault on a man at a protest at the same location the previous Sunday.
All three have been questioned and bailed until 23 November.
A man aged in his 60s was also arrested last Friday on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.
That followed a review of footage from a 24 August protest. He was released on bail until 28 November.