diff --git a/docs/client.md b/docs/client.md
index c267dab..7ff9f37 100644
--- a/docs/client.md
+++ b/docs/client.md
@@ -276,15 +276,15 @@ containing the following fields:
 |timeLimit  |the maximum amount of time the server should take in responding, in seconds. Defaults to 10.  Lots of servers will ignore this.|
 |paged      |enable and/or configure automatic result paging|
 
-Responses from the `search` method are an `EventEmitter` where you will get a
-notification for each `searchEntry` that comes back from the server.  You will
-additionally be able to listen for a `searchReference`, `error` and `end` event.
-Note that the `error` event will only be for client/TCP errors, not LDAP error
-codes like the other APIs.  You'll want to check the LDAP status code
-(likely for `0`) on the `end` event to assert success.  LDAP search results
-can give you a lot of status codes, such as time or size exceeded, busy,
-inappropriate matching, etc., which is why this method doesn't try to wrap up
-the code matching.
+Responses inside callback of the `search` method are an `EventEmitter` where you will get a notification for
+each `searchEntry` that comes back from the server. You will additionally be able to listen for a `searchRequest`
+, `searchReference`, `error` and `end` event.
+`searchRequest` is emitted immediately after every `SearchRequest` is sent with a `SearchRequest` parameter. You can do operations
+like `client.abandon` with `searchRequest.messageID` to abandon this search request. Note that the `error` event will
+only be for client/TCP errors, not LDAP error codes like the other APIs. You'll want to check the LDAP status code
+(likely for `0`) on the `end` event to assert success. LDAP search results can give you a lot of status codes, such as
+time or size exceeded, busy, inappropriate matching, etc., which is why this method doesn't try to wrap up the code
+matching.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ const opts = {
 client.search('o=example', opts, (err, res) => {
   assert.ifError(err);
 
+  res.on('searchRequest', (searchRequest) => {
+    console.log('searchRequest: ', searchRequest.messageID);
+  });
   res.on('searchEntry', (entry) => {
     console.log('entry: ' + JSON.stringify(entry.object));
   });
diff --git a/lib/client/client.js b/lib/client/client.js
index f54cf6a..b982c3a 100644
--- a/lib/client/client.js
+++ b/lib/client/client.js
@@ -1251,7 +1251,9 @@ Client.prototype._sendSocket = function _sendSocket (message,
       conn.end()
     } else if (emitter) {
       sentEmitter = true
-      return callback(null, emitter)
+      callback(null, emitter)
+      emitter.emit('searchRequest', message)
+      return
     }
     return false
   }
diff --git a/lib/client/search_pager.js b/lib/client/search_pager.js
index 83a77e9..cf4bfde 100644
--- a/lib/client/search_pager.js
+++ b/lib/client/search_pager.js
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ function SearchPager (opts) {
   this.started = false
 
   const emitter = new EventEmitter()
+  emitter.on('searchRequest', this.emit.bind(this, 'searchRequest'))
   emitter.on('searchEntry', this.emit.bind(this, 'searchEntry'))
   emitter.on('end', this._onEnd.bind(this))
   emitter.on('error', this._onError.bind(this))
diff --git a/test/client.test.js b/test/client.test.js
index 1b69454..7d27a86 100644
--- a/test/client.test.js
+++ b/test/client.test.js
@@ -777,14 +777,23 @@ tap.test('search paged', { timeout: 10000 }, function (t) {
   t.test('paged - no pauses', function (t2) {
     let countEntries = 0
     let countPages = 0
+    let currentSearchRequest = null
     t.context.client.search('cn=paged', { paged: { pageSize: 100 } }, function (err, res) {
       t2.error(err)
       res.on('searchEntry', entryListener)
+      res.on('searchRequest', (searchRequest) => {
+        t2.ok(searchRequest instanceof ldap.SearchRequest)
+        if (currentSearchRequest === null) {
+          t2.equal(countPages, 0)
+        }
+        currentSearchRequest = searchRequest
+      })
       res.on('page', pageListener)
       res.on('error', (err) => t2.error(err))
-      res.on('end', function () {
+      res.on('end', function (result) {
         t2.equal(countEntries, 1000)
         t2.equal(countPages, 10)
+        t2.equal(result.messageID, currentSearchRequest.messageID)
         t2.end()
       })
 
@@ -797,8 +806,11 @@ tap.test('search paged', { timeout: 10000 }, function (t) {
         countEntries += 1
       }
 
-      function pageListener () {
+      function pageListener (result) {
         countPages += 1
+        if (countPages < 10) {
+          t2.equal(result.messageID, currentSearchRequest.messageID)
+        }
       }
     })
   })