Fresh calls to sort out the running of the controversial Campsfield House immigration detention centre were made tonight after the fourth outbreak of violence in just over a year.

Fires were started inside the centre and sources said about 20 detainees staged a rooftop protest.

Managers were forced to call in more than 200 prison officers, police, firefighters and paramedics to help them regain control on Saturday.

It was the fourth incident in 16 months at the centre, in Langford Lane, Kidlington, which is run by private firm GEO.

A group of about 100 specially-trained prison officers in full riot gear - known as Tornado teams - went into the centre to restore order.

None of the detainees got out of the centre during the disturbance, but two people were treated for minor injuries, including smoke inhalation, by paramedics.

Detainees were locked in an exercise yard where they could be heard shouting and banging on the 25ft-high metal fence.

Tonight, campaigners and local MP Evan Harris said the continuing outbreaks of violence showed something needed to be done.

Dr Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, said: "This is the fourth reported disturbance in the past 16 months and suggests there is something seriously wrong, either with the Home Office systems or the management of the centre."

Gill Baden, of the Campaign to Close Campsfield, said she wasn't surprised there had been another disturbance.

She said: "I don't know what sparked it off this time.

"Normally, it has been to do with someone being removed forcibly, when they have documents showing they still have an appeal or judicial review.

"We heard a fire was started in the education section and the training room and people were very frightened and people were on the roof.

"We want the whole of the detention system for immigrants stopped."

A UK Border Agency spokesman said a review of the incident would now be held. He said: "The relatively small disturbance at Campsfield has now been resolved peacefully and quickly.

"It was instigated by a small number of individuals determined to frustrate removal.

"They will not succeed and we are considering prosecution."

He could not confirm who would pick up the bill for yesterday's operation.

Trouble broke out at the controversial centre - which holds up to 215 men - just before 2pm.

There was a small amount of damage in one block but not enough to force detainees to be moved.

Thames Valley Police spokesman Rachel McQuilliam said about 50 officers, including dog handlers and the force helicopter, were sent, while others were drafted in for "high-visibility reassurance patrols" in surrounding streets today.

Evenlode Crescent resident David Pitman, 41, said during a disturbance at the centre last summer he chased a detainee down the road.

The father-of-two said: "It has made me more concerned for the children but it has got to be on someone's doorstep. They have to be detained, otherwise this country will be inundated with people coming in from abroad."

And Bill Smith, 50, also of Evenlode Close, said he would like to see the centre closed.

He said: "It has happened before and it will happen again. I can understand why they try to come here but the country is like an over-full rowing boat and it just can't take it any more."

No-one from GEO was available for comment.