Dallas police commanders issued a written reprimand Friday to a department spokeswoman accused of flashing a gun at a motorist in an off-duty road rage incident in Allen last year.

Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther remains in her post as a police spokeswoman, one of the most visible assignments in the 3,600-member police force. It is unclear if she may be transferred to a different unit.

A written reprimand is the most serious form of documented discipline and remains in an officer’s permanent file. Crowther declined to comment through her attorney, Bob Gorsky, other than to say that she considers the matter closed.

Crowther, 49, has denied flashing her gun in October. Allen police did not charge her in the case.

Dallas police officials did not rule on whether she flashed the gun, but they determined she violated a departmental rule that states, “No employee, when acting outside the course and scope of his duties, shall precipitate, cause, or escalate a disturbance or police incident to his discredit.”

The 27-year department veteran has the right to appeal the ruling.

The Allen confrontation was the second time in six years that Crowther was accused of flashing a gun at another motorist while off-duty. It was at least the fourth time Crowther was accused of misconduct stemming from an off-duty traffic-related dispute, according to records obtained by The Dallas Morning News in response to Public Information Act requests.

Crowther was not criminally charged in any of the cases, and police internal affairs investigators found the evidence was inconclusive or unfounded regarding allegations against her in the three earlier incidents, all of which occurred while she was assigned to the internal affairs division.

Recently obtained records detail an off-duty verbal spat involving Crowther and an on-duty Dallas police officer while both were driving in far northeast Dallas on April 5, 2003.

Crowther was driving north on Audelia Road near Forest Lane when she said a Dallas police officer drove his cruiser extremely close to the right side of her car, then behind her and abruptly on her left side. She said she was stopped at a red light when she rolled down her window and asked Officer Michael Shaw and the officer riding in the passenger seat if they were trying to pull her over.

Crowther accused Shaw of using an expletive in responding to her, which Shaw denied. Shaw accused Crowther of lying in making the allegation against him.

No one other than Crowther, including three other people in her vehicle, reported hearing Shaw use the expletive that Crowther said he did, according to the documents. Both officers’ allegations sparked internal affairs investigations, both of which were ruled inconclusive.

“It is my belief that Senior Cpl. Crowther intentionally and maliciously lied in her internal statement concerning this charge in order to have the upper hand in what would otherwise have been a non-compliant issue,” Shaw wrote in an internal statement.

Shaw, 47, who remains on the force, did not respond to requests for comment. His disciplinary history includes punishments for several traffic accidents and a case of unnecessary use of force, according to records.

One year earlier, on March 14, 2002, Crowther was accused of berating and threatening a NorthPark Center security officer in the mall parking lot. She said the officer singled her out and taunted her, and she said she had spoken to other black people who said they had had similar experiences with a mall security officer, the records said.

The NorthPark security director also sent a three-page letter of complaint about Crowther to the Dallas police internal affairs division commander.

On July 19, 2004, a motorist accused Crowther of pulling a weapon as they both drove southbound on North Central Expressway north of Dallas. Crowther called 911 and claimed motorist Randy Davis was the one with the gun, leading Richardson police to stop and search him. They found no weapons.

Crowther denied flashing a handgun during that incident and said she keeps all of her gear in the trunk, a police report said.

The Allen case that led to Friday’s discipline involved motorist Jeffrey Simmons, who said Crowther nearly rear-ended his car after he turned onto West McDermott Drive from southbound Watters Road, according to an Allen police report.

Simmons said he asked Crowther what her problem was and she responded by pulling a handgun from her purse and screaming and yelling at him. Crowther denied the accusations and said Simmons was the aggressor. She said he also used racial epithets, which Simmons denied.

Allen officers found a loaded blue steel Smith and Wesson Chief’s Special .38-caliber revolver in a black clip-on holster inside the top of Crowther’s shoulder bag, the police report said.

“I regret being involved in this incident,” Crowther wrote in her November internal affairs statement. “In hindsight, I wish I had driven off and found somewhere to stop and call the police.”