diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 6e282a9e92047eb9c6166fcd489bfb6dcfb2adf9..98ba2ae210816234009d2edf9f0e22c4b3b43248 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/tags/
 image:
   name: lb584/ews_coordinator:latest
-  pull_policy: if-not-present
 
 # Change pip's cache directory to be inside the project directory since we can
 # only cache local items.