diff --git a/octavia/common/policy.py b/octavia/common/policy.py
index e7e13f6027..328f0ccff1 100644
--- a/octavia/common/policy.py
+++ b/octavia/common/policy.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 """Policy Engine For Octavia."""
 from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_log import log as logging
-from oslo_policy import opts
 from oslo_policy import policy as oslo_policy
 from oslo_utils import excutils
 
@@ -25,13 +24,6 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 OCTAVIA_POLICY = None
 
 
-# TODO(gmann): Remove setting the default value of config policy_file
-# once oslo_policy change the default value to 'policy.yaml'.
-# https://github.com/openstack/oslo.policy/blob/a626ad12fe5a3abd49d70e3e5b95589d279ab578/oslo_policy/opts.py#L49
-DEFAULT_POLICY_FILE = 'policy.yaml'
-opts.set_defaults(cfg.CONF, DEFAULT_POLICY_FILE)
-
-
 def get_enforcer():
     global OCTAVIA_POLICY
     if OCTAVIA_POLICY is None:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 621ccb06ae..c3a1b9cd57 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ oslo.i18n>=3.20.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=4.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.messaging>=14.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.middleware>=4.0.1 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.policy>=3.7.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.policy>=4.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.reports>=1.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=2.28.1 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.upgradecheck>=1.3.0 # Apache-2.0