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Former Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton, 70, was speaking in new BBC documentary series Bent Coppers.
The three-episode series tells the story of institutionalised corruption in the Metropolitan and City of London police in the 1970s.
Ms Malton retired from the Met in 1997 after a 30-year career before going on to advise producers of police television shows.
Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante spoke to Ms Malton for hours to create no-nonsense officer DCI Jane Tennison.
The character was portrayed by Helen Mirren in the long-running show before La Plante released a book of the same name.
Speaking in the final Bent Coppers episode, which airs tonight, she told how everybody just stood up and walked out after she entered the police canteen following the suspension of a fellow officer suspected of planting drugs on suspects.
The crime of armed robbery had been brought to a state almost of perfection in the 1970s thanks to police corruption, a new documentary reveals.
The final episode in BBC series Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, which airs this evening, reveals how one of London s most senior police officers was believed to have helped suppress investigations and even took cuts of robbers ill-gotten gains.
Commander Hugh Moore, who was the third most senior officer in the City of London Police, was allegedly the greatest villain unhung , a fellow corrupt officer said.
Moore, who died from heart failure in 1993 while attempting an arrest, was described as a greedy b d by bent detective Phil Cuthbert, who talked of a £175,000 robbery on the Daily Express s payroll van in 1976 being a Hughie Moore job .