diff --git a/env/policy.env b/env/policy.env
index 2bddd0e9d9175097a257e4dc1e8515fd9ac16493..73d7d7b71e639553fd5dcb684aa99bd2ad4ad9b1 100644
--- a/env/policy.env
+++ b/env/policy.env
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ HTTP_READ_TIMEOUT="10s"
 HTTP_WRITE_TIMEOUT="10s"
 MONGO_ADDR="mongodb://mongo:27017/policy?replicaSet=rs0&authSource=admin"
 #POLICY_REPOSITORY_CLONE_URL="https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/xfsc/tsa/policies.git"
+POLICY_LOCK_ON_VALIDATION_FAILURE="true"
 MONGO_USER="root"
 MONGO_PASS="root"
 MONGO_DBNAME="policy"