1. An in-car multiple-resolution camera system for first responder vehicles, comprising: a single high-resolution camera imager for capturing images in high resolution and outputting the captured images in a first high-resolution image output stream having pixel information therein; a signal processing module for processing the first high-resolution image output stream and producing (1) a reduced-area high-resolution image output stream containing image information for only a selected portion or portions of the captured images and (2) a wide-area low-resolution image output stream; an event recorder for recording events based on the images captured by the single high-resolution camera imager using the wide-image low-resolution image output stream; and a license plate recognition system for capturing and processing images of vehicle license plates nearby based on the images captured by the single high-resolution camera imager using the reduced-area high-resolution image output stream.