According to Colwell

My good friend Dr. Brad Sandor stumbled across this priceless comparison while looking for information on interpolation routines. He landed on the Wikipedia site for the international police agency Interpol, which also notes the uncanny resemblance of Interpol’s logo with that of the evil Terran Empire in the Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror” (and its sequels).

Here’s Interpol’s emblem.

And here’s that of the Terran Empire.

It would be interesting to know if Star Trek borrowed the design from Interpol. The emblem of the United Federation of Planets is based on that of the United Nations:

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