---
title: "Delete a specified escalation policy"
method: DELETE
path: "/api-public/v1/policies/{policy}"
tags: ["Escalation Policies"]
---

# Delete a specified escalation policy

`DELETE /api-public/v1/policies/{policy}`

Deletes a specific escalaton policy based on the unique policy slug provided in the path.

Any routing keys which ONLY contain this policy will also be deleted.

This API may be called a maximum of 2 times per second.

## Path parameters

- `policy` string, required

## Headers

- `X-VO-Api-Id` string, required
- `X-VO-Api-Key` string, required

## Response `200`

The escalation policy was deleted

## Other responses

- `400` — Problem with the request arguments. The response payload may include an error message.
- `401` — Authentication parameters missing
- `403` — Authentication failed or rate-limit reached
- `404` — Path not found
- `500` — Internal Server Error

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