diff --git a/classes/Policies.php b/classes/Policies.php
index 74a894f8e0..20b49e45a1 100644
--- a/classes/Policies.php
+++ b/classes/Policies.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class Policies {
     public function __construct($policy_id = null) {
         $this->db = new \ParlDB;
 
-        if (TESTING) {
+        if (!(defined('TESTING') && TESTING == true)) {
             $policy_data = json_decode(file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../tests/policies.json'), true);
         } else {
             $policy_data = json_decode(file_get_contents(RAWDATA . '/scrapedjson/policies.json'), true);