The Ertzaintza is the autonomous police of the Basque Country, created in 1982 by the Lendakari Carlos Garaikoetxea in development of the Statute of Guernica. Its origin as the Basque Country's own police is located in the old municipal militias to stop banditry favored by social and political upheavals. It is one of the four Spanish security forces and bodies of an autonomous nature, together with the Catalan Mozos de Escuadra, the Foral Police of Navarre and the Canary Islands Police.
In 1982, a prototype of the Grand Gala uniform was made, post-Napoleonic in style, inspired by those uniforms used by the "Chasseurs D'Orleans" in the 1840s by French troops. Later it is modified giving it a line similar to the jacket of General Zumalakarregi, but playing on its composition of colors, green, red and silver.
The image of this garment is of great elegance and solemnity, singled out in the bodies of Great Honors, for its showiness, distinction and packaging. The uniform accessories are: Txapela, gloves, shoulder straps, the shoulder strap, saber and collar.