The phrase "a general policy that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a broad guideline or principle that governs actions or decisions within an organization or context.
Example: "The company has established a general policy that promotes sustainability in all its operations."
Alternatives: "a broad guideline that" or "a universal principle that".
In its early days, Broken Windows was a general policy that instructed officers to intervene in lower-level criminal activities, such as fights and public intoxication.
They may have a general policy that says they offer work flexibility, but as far as making it something that's concrete, easily understood and accessible to employees, they're not quite there yet.
On June 12 he said he would not be calling future Games "the best ever," saying, "It's a general policy that I have taken".
"A lot of companies have a general policy that they must use their own proxy network in order to transfer data, especially into and out of China," Mr. Ong said.
"I knew about the waterboarding, not specifically in any one particular case, but as a general policy that we had approved," said Mr. Cheney, who noted that neither a gun nor a drill had actually been used on detainees.
The Fourteenth Amendment and the laws adopted under its authority thus embody a general policy that all persons lawfully in this country shall abide "in any state" on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under nondiscriminatory laws.
He corrected himself to say "part of" a doctrine because he and his aides were working on a more general policy that would apply beyond Afghanistan.
"As a matter of general policy, that's right," he said.
The rationale for the S.E.C.'s general policy that a party need not admit to a violation is to protect companies from the "collateral estoppel" effect of a finding of a violation.
Well, actually: a 2005 State Department directive said "It is the Department's general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized [Automated Information System], which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information".
"It is our general policy that if there is not unity among senators from a state about funding requests, we would not proceed to fund it," Mr. Dorgan wrote in a letter to The Post and Courier in Charleston in response to an earlier suggestion from Mr. DeMint that the committee was being vindictive.
