A former news director of City TV once told me he tried to hire Cam Woolley to become a reporter for the station when he was still with the OPP. The guy was a natural if you remember his entertaining updates on what was otherwise the dull de rigeur "How's highway traffic going?" story that every station does on every long weekend. (Remember his talk about "Fred Flintstone cars"?) 

For whatever reason, Woolley said no at the time and wasn't ready to leave the force. An intervention by then Chief Julian Fantino to stop his sometimes comical live reports may have led to his decision to finally leave policing altogether and it was clear he was ready-made for TV.

CP24 came calling and he took that gig. If things had worked out, he could have ended up at CHUM (now Rogers) and not Bell. But it didn't turn out that way.

It's known by many that Woolley has a side business that rents an extensive collection of vintage vehicles to movie and TV shoots. More on that here.