diff --git a/env/policy.env b/env/policy.env
index 1c541c48756a7cbe79bb3eed59bb7b8545f6f696..9150ad3f116fbc07fa24e804f40181e0f7e5540d 100644
--- a/env/policy.env
+++ b/env/policy.env
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ 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"