**Summary**: Policies cannot be edited or added once the security policy project is deleted. Steps to reproduce the issue: 1. Create a group and a project 2. Add new policy: I have tested with the merge request approval policy 3. Add a MR to confirm that the policy is working and that the approval is needed 4. As a group owner go to the Security project policy settings and delete the project 5. A message will be returned that the project is read only 6. While trying to edit or add new policy the following message is returned: You are not allowed to push into this branch 7.  8. Policies are still in place once the project was removed  Why this might be a bug: - It could lock a group in the case of misconfigured policies and deletion of the policies project. ## Proposal > prevent from deleting the project when it is linked as SPP to other groups/projects -\> we could list projects/groups and ask user to unlink them first before proceeding with deletion