National Prosecuting Authority acting head Mokotedi Mpshe said on Wednesday that he understood why South Africans were concerned about the incorporation of the Scorpions into the police.

"The government as well as the president of this country have gone on record that the idea here is to come with an elite unit with all the capacity and strength to fight organised crime.

"Of course there has been concern as to whether statements by the president and the government are really true ... Once you see success in a particular unit and if told that the unit may be phased out, off course South Africans are worried," Mpshe said in Johannesburg.

He was responding to a question on Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister's failed bid to stop government from disbanding the Scorpions.

The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday struck Glenister's application from the roll, saying it was not in its jurisdiction to rule on the matter.

Mpshe urged the public to give a new special police unit incorporating the Scorpions a chance. "You have these views and I cannot say if people are right or wrong. Give it a chance, let it move, let the process go on and let us wait
and see," he said.