Operation launched at jail in New York housing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is being held at the centre (Invision/AP)

Investigators have launched an “inter-agency operation” at the troubled jail in New York City where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held.

Officials from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other US federal law enforcement agencies descended on the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn on Monday, authorities said.