The one-year trial gave police the option to issue penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) to young people involved in low-level criminal behaviour.
Young people could be fined either £30 or £40 for offences including harassment and being drunk and disorderly.
But an evaluation of the pilot recommended that the scheme be altered before being rolled out nationally.
Officers said the list of offences for which a PND could be issued would need revising if the programme was expanded.
Representatives from youth offending teams also called for the scheme to be revised on the basis that poor families are penalised unfairly by fines.
Recipients of PNDs also complained that the fines victimised poor families and had a negative effect on family relationships.
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