ググると確かに10.6.2で出て来るね
こんなのも見つかったしなんだか怪しさ満点のデーモン

Hi. Launching an new application takes a few minutes verifying. Activity monitor shows syspolicyd burning cpu.
Maybe work around by removing all ap security restrictions in the prefs, but would rather not. Maybe a corrupted prefs to be trashed -- which one? Thx for the help -- david
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)