More than 25,000 applications for 500 police officer posts in Lesotho

The police spokesperson confirmed this influx of applications to Lesotho Tribune, against a backdrop of high unemployment in the country.

By Chinedu Okafor · 19 October 2026 · 1 min read

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View of Maseru, Lesotho, on 30 October 2016. Illustrative archive photo, unrelated to the police recruitment. Lschefa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. WebP variant, recompressed. Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

The Lesotho police received more than 25,000 applications for 500 officer posts, Lesotho Tribune reported on Sunday, 18 October, citing its spokesperson, Superintendent Mohai.

The recruitment therefore covers more than 50 applications for each post to be filled, according to figures provided to the newspaper.

This demand for public-sector jobs comes in a country where the unemployment rate stood at 30.1% in 2024, according to the labour force survey of the National Bureau of Statistics. The indicator reports the number of unemployed people as a share of the labour force.

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